New P4 "C" @ 800MHz FSB

[Tazman]

A pretty good article can be read here .

I have refused to build a P4 system to date because of well, I'll leave that alone.

But, after seeing this, I would like to get ahold of one of the new Canterwoods.

I wonder how a Canterwood will compare to AMD's 400MHz FSB (when we see it ) .

Mike

[M_Six]

Good info in that article, but they need to route that guy's reviews through a good editor.

Aside from gaming and high-end graphics, how much real-world difference will this make? Or are gaming and graphics the whole point behind the horsepower?

I suppose with that kind of power you could burn CDs, surf, and play Quake all at the same time, eh?

[thekingofpain]

Quote:

AMD loses CPU battle at least for a while but I have in mind that Intel could be still caught by AMD, maybe with the new FSB 400 Barton. We expect to see a Barton FSB 400 in next month or two to fill the existing performance gap in AMD's line at least until September before Athlon 64 arrives. Athlon 64 will then have nasty competitor codenamed Prescott with 13 new SSE instructions and 1 MB cache on 90 nanometer.

If you have the money and want the fastest CPU and board in the tenement block, the P4 3.0 GHz C with FSB 800 and Canterwood chipset is the clear choice for you. You cannot get any better than this, at least for the time being. It's the fastest X86 CPU on the planet

[thegladiatorgy]

I'm presently seeking to purchase the 2.8C GHZ and a mobo with the 865G chipset for our server.