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Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: gaming performance review
Reviews When it comes to 3D games, Intel’s Pentium 4 delivers the best results. The fastest Athlon processor (Athlon XP/2100+) give way to the Pentium 4/ 2400 and P4/2533 on MadOnion’s 3DMark 2001 SE. The Vulpine test also fails to bring out any...
[May 16, 2002, 16:39]
Pentium 4 picks up steam with chipset deals
News Acer Labs has signed a licence to manufacture Pentium 4 chipsets, as Intel cranks up efforts to popularise its latest processor. With the deal, Taiwan's ALI becomes the second company after ATI Technologies to officially announce a Pentium 4...
[February 19, 2001, 8:26]
Five years ago: Pentium II to rev up to 400MHz
News Intel yesterday showed a 233MHz Pentium II but said it will also release a 400MHz version of the chip. All Pentium II CPUs will ship in a cartridge package; initial shipments are in early May. Early benchmarking of Pentium II systems suggest the...
[April 17, 2002, 7:01]
Pentium name begins to fade away
News The Pentium name will go into partial retirement in January, sources say. As a result, the Pentium M designation for the company's mobile chips vanishes, sources say, meaning the brand name that helped Intel establish its position in the market...
[December 22, 2005, 9:50]
Pentium II to rev up to 400MHz
News Intel yesterday showed a 233MHz Pentium II but said it will also release a 400MHz version of the chip. All Pentium II CPUs will ship in a cartridge package; initial shipments are in early May. Early benchmarking of Pentium II systems suggest the...
[April 17, 1997, 14:18]
Pentium 4-M chills out in notebooks
News Intel has launched its hotly anticipated mobile Pentium 4 processors, having stepped up the launch schedule amidst pressure from PC makers eager to update their laptop computer offerings. The Pentium 4-M processor is the first time the Pentium 4...
[March 4, 2002, 13:03]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: encoding performance review
Reviews The MP3 encoder MusicMatch Jukebox has been optimised in version 7.0 for Intel’s Pentium 4, allowing the new 2,533MHz Pentium 4 to just beat the Athlon XP/2100+. With a 46.5 percent performance difference between the Pentium 4/2533 (fastest) and...
[May 16, 2002, 16:36]
Pentium 4 delay gives AMD top spot
News Intel won't release another version of the Pentium 4 until early 2002, sources say, in a move that will likely put the performance crown back on AMD's head -- at least for a short time. Northwood," a 2.2GHz Pentium 4 based on the 130-nanometer...
[October 12, 2001, 16:52]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: How we tested review
Reviews Intel’s new Pentium 4 processors work with chipsets that support the 533MHz frontside bus. Intel’s new 850E chipset, which supports a 533MHz frontside bus, accompanies the new 2.53, 2.4 and 2.26GHz Pentium 4 processors.
[May 16, 2002, 16:34]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: Internet performance review
Reviews An Athlon XP/2000+ is already as fast as the Pentium 4/2533. With a performance difference of 43.5 percent between the fastest (Athlon/XP2100+) and slowest (Pentium 4/2000) processors, a CPU upgrade is particularly noticeable.
[May 16, 2002, 16:38]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: conclusion review
Reviews Intel’s new 2,533MHz Pentium 4 with a 533MHz frontside bus is, barring a few exceptions, the fastest available processor for PC systems. Software manufacturers are likely to create ever more optimisations for the Pentium 4.
[May 16, 2002, 16:40]
Pentium 4 chip takes lead in desktop speed
News Intel on Monday will release a Pentium 4 running at 3.2GHz and will separately discuss a new version of its upcoming Madison chip optimized for dual-processor servers and workstations. The 3.2GHz Pentium 4 is likely to be the fastest desktop chip...
[June 23, 2003, 7:37]
Pentium M chips may face supply problems
News Samsung, Acer and Asustek Computer have all had trouble supplying Centrino laptops to their Chinese resellers, due to the tight supply of the Pentium M processor, according to a report in the Taiwanese industry journal Digitimes.
[April 7, 2003, 15:58]
Pentium 4: More speed in the pipeline
News Intel will increase the speed of the chipset on the Pentium 4 in the coming months, a change likely to boost the performance of top-end PCs. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker is coming out with a new chipset, code-named Springdale, for...
[January 13, 2003, 8:11]
Pentium-M laptops arrive on the scene
News PC manufacturers are coming out with a slew of new notebooks containing Intel's Pentium-M processor, which executives claim goes a long way toward improving the laptop experience. Dell Computer, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others will start selling...
[March 12, 2003, 7:43]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: application performance review
Reviews With business applications such as Word, Excel, Notes and WinZip, which are all components of Business Winstone 2001, Intel’s new flagship 2533MHz Pentium 4 closes the gap on the Athlon XP/2100+. Even an Athlon XP/2000+ with DDR memory is faster...
[May 16, 2002, 16:35]
Pentium name begins to fade away
Talkback first it was the boom of Pentium 1 then 2 and so on.and the race now comes to an end.with Pentium 4.the ones who are on the losing and paying side are the end consumers.the more the delay the more the advantage when buying any peripheral as every...
[December 22, 2005, 13:32]
Pentium 4 PC prices plunge
News The low-priced Pentium 4 desktop has arrived. As expected, PC makers on Monday launched a bevy of new computers that combine Pentium 4 processors with standard memory. Gateway also launched the Performance 1500 CS, a new line of Pentium 4/SDRAM PCs...
[September 11, 2001, 9:02]
Pentium III gets a new lease on life
News Intel is set to continue revising its Pentium III processor, even after the introduction of the Pentium 4, with a 1.13GHz PIII scheduled to arrive this week. Intel's move to extend the life of the "Coppermine" version of Pentium III comes as arch...
[July 24, 2000, 13:04]
Pentium 4 set for Halloween launch
News Intel may have a Halloween treat for tech trick-or-treaters -- the launch of the Pentium 4 processor for desktop PCs. But sources said that neither PC maker plans to offer the Pentium 4 in corporate PC lines right away.
[September 25, 2000, 7:54]
