Intel Pentium III 1.13 GHz processor > Reviews

Advantages: Fast Chip, newest instruction set
Disadvantages: Far too priceycompared to AMD

The Intel PIII is one of the two most powerfull processors on the market along with the AMD Athlon. The real problem I have with the Intel offereing is there price. I dont believe that the PIII is better than the Athlon, I believe its close but no where near as the price difference suggests. The Pentium III was the first Intel chip to have SSE(Streaming SIMD* Extensions) * Single Edge Contact Cartridge Basically this was MMX 2, it does ... Read review

Advantages: Great little chip
Disadvantages: None

...to break the stranglehold that Intel have on the market. Ok, they may be suitable to play with at home as Gaming PC but lack the bite of a office PC used for high performance PC work in a Software design enviroment. The Athlons have a problem with their cooling fans too. My friend has had a chip fry in his machine due to the fan packing up. So there you have it. Go for the technology that is proven. The P4 is not much different from the P3 at ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, equals perforamce of AMD at the GHz clock speed
Disadvantages: Too expensive

...ago....and i mean long ago, Intel ws well known for their brilliant processors, ruling over all the over makes like AMD, Cyrix who were the leading competitors to the brilliance of Intel. It must have been prolonged period at the No. 1 seat for processors that Intel decided they will slack off a bit, and this is when AMD released their Athlon processor. Everybody's expectations were that the AMD's new offering was going to be rubbish and another failed ... Read review

Advantages: CHEAP
Disadvantages: Difficult to find one still

The Pentium III 550E has to be the best choice for a value for money processor at the moment - if you can get one ! I bought a 550E in April of this year to use on my new supermicro PIIISCD motherboard and could not believe how easy it was to overclock it !! The PIIISCA has a jumper to override the front side bus setting contained on the processor. Setting the jumper to 133 rather than the default fsb I rebooted & then, to my suprise, even with ... Read review

Advantages: reasonable speed
Disadvantages: outclassed by cheaper athlon

Intel amazes me - years after everyone ridiculed the name "pentium" they are still at it with their latest revision, the PIII. Like all intel chips, it is completely compatible with all existin dos, win, linux etc, so all your old programs will still run. HOWEVER, this is likely to be the last chip that is this completely backwards compatible. THe next chip will have a 64bit layout, and it is likely that 32-bit [ie pentium] will only be emulated - ... Read review

Advantages: BETTER PERFORMANCE/ RELIABILITY
Disadvantages: A LITTLE LOUDER ON THE FAN/COOLING

I HAVE BEEN USING PENTIUM PROCESSORS FOR MANY YEARS NOW AND HAVE FOUND THEM TO BE BOTH RELIABLE AND GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO. I HAVE RECENTLY UP-GRADED TO A NEW PENTIUM III 450 HTZ PROCESSOR AND I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY IT'S PERFORMANCE. I THOUGHT LONG AND HARD BEFORE BUYING MY NEW MACHINE AND LOOKED AT THE DIFFERENT PROCESSORS AVAILABLE ON THE MARKET. I SOUGHT ADVICE FROM FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES WITH OTHER PROCESSORS AND DECIDED TO STICK WITH THE PENTIUM. ... Read review

Advantages: qualty
Disadvantages: none

I have built loads of systems from socket 7 to amd to p111 slots, i run 3 pc's seperately ,2 have pentium prossers & one has a amd i have run the amd athlon for 12 months & it has been nothing but trouble,half the hardwear on the market it does not support amd when you build a amd system you have to be so carefull on which conponents you buy ie motherboards, memory i spent weeks going through this mine field & still going though it ,with hinesite ... Read review

Advantages: very reliable.. enhanced internet capabilities
Disadvantages: slower FSB.. pricier than AMD

...are generally cheaper than their INTEL counterparts but you have to consider options when considering the chips available. My opinion is that most home users will not notice a discernible difference in speed using an AMD chip to its INTEL equivalent.. the motherboard can only run as fast as its slowest component and if the memory in a pc is only running at 100mhz FSB then that is the as quick as your bus speed will be. Motherboards are not multi chip ... Read review

Advantages: The Best of the Choice, Many new features.
Disadvantages: Non

Its always a good Idea to buy the best processor currently on the market. Intel's PentiumIII series is packed with lot of new features not available on the cheaper range. You may not use your Computer to its full initially, but as you get experienced and start using more power hungry programmes that use graphics that is when you will be glad you chose PentiumIII. If you are keen user of grahics programmes ie. CorelDraw, AutoCad, 3D-Studio or any 2D/3D ... Read review

Advantages: Good speed and a great price
Disadvantages: Outdated now

I brought an Intel P3-600e as my old P2-350 was getting a bit old and slow. I haven't really got a fast enough Graphics Card to take full advantage of the cpus speed, I'm using an ATI Rage 128 (32meg). Many people that I know are overclocking their cpus, I did try this with mine, but really didn't notice any performance increase that was worth the bother of having to get PC133 ram (I'm only using PC100 ram). They say that the new P3's are great for ... Read review

Advantages: Reliable supplier
Disadvantages: Pricey

The Pentium III still bears the vestige of a name that has been with us for a computing eternity, and there is no sign of a let us, with the P IV around the corener according to PC Plus. Whilst Processor speeds have gone through the roof, Intel's customer commitmetn has become sluggish. The Athlon is a far superior chip and to boot doesn't spy on your operations. Whilst the P III claims to be web enhanced the 23 new operation since the P II series ... Read review

Advantages: Its Intel
Disadvantages: Its Intel

...identify users to remote systems. Intel claims that the purpose of this serial number is to improve the security of online transactions, but its inclusion has been condemned by several civil rights organisations. Apparently as a result of this, Intel is currently developing a piece of software that will 'turn off' this feature if the user so wishes. Verdict Intel now has at least three different desktop processor ranges to its name. The Pentium ... Read review