Blue Chip Vario Plus P4 2 GHz

Advantages: Really good for multitasking. Great value
Disadvantages: Cant clock it to 3 ghz without getting it really hot.

...Well this processor is nothing new really. It is pretty much the same thing as the amd 2700 chip. However it has a 512 cache. It is double that of p4s and other amd chips. Although it runs at 2.167 ghz it is faster than a 2.5 ghz p4. How cool is that. It can run most games fairly well. The only game it cant run smoothly is halo, even when I used a radeon 9800xt. However you can overclock it a bit to 2.5 ghz and it will run great. Since it has the barton core like the amd 64 processor it will be able to run some 64 bit applications. I bought this processor because I was building a pc for myself. So far I have no problems. You can clock it to 3 ghz but you will need a better heatsink and a loud fan to keep it cool. I reccomend you only clock it 2.5 ghz max.... Read review

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Advantages: The the high clock speed will impress cuctomers
Disadvantages: does not do as much per Cycle, slow

...wow, that new Intel Pentium chip runs at 1.5Ghz. It must be the fastest chip out there. Well if you fell for that sorry, it is not really true. Hz is measuring hw many cycles a chip does in a second, what it does not take into account is how much the chip does in a cycle. This means that a 1.5Ghz P4 can be out performed by another chip running at a lower clock speed but doing more calculations per cycle. The easiest example is comparing it to its predecessor the Pentium 3. The P3 can only manage up to about 1Ghz, but even at this clock rate it out performs the P4 at most things! Then there are the Athlons which are now running over the 1Ghz mark, and beating the best Intel has by a long way. To further prove that the Pentium 4 is well behind, Apples current chip the G4 is about 50% faster in real world Photoshop test than the P4... Read review

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Advantages: Technologically more advanced than the Athlons. Once SSE2 instructions catered for, it will be much faster.
Disadvantages: Expensive. At the moment, the SSE2 instructions are not used and therefore the proccessor is not the best you can get.

...Intel have had a few problems lately. A mixture of stupidity, over-confidence and general laziness has allowed the underdog AMD to take quite a significant portion of Intels annual turnover. Cue the Pentium 4. Nice blue men, but is it any good? Well the problem for Intel is that in the battle between the PIII and the Athlons, they got their ass's well and truely kicked. AMD sold superior chips, and lower prices (half the price was not uncommon), and effectively dominated the budget and medium range of processors, with its PIII beating athlons and Celeron beating Durons. The P4 was supposed to be 'THE BIG THING', but the reception of it has been pretty lukewarm. The reason? Well, its EXPENSIVE! People are wondering why shell out $400 for a p4 1.7Ghz, when they can get an athlon 1.33Ghz and overclock it safely to 1.5Ghz without extra... Read review

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