A. Powers wees ons naar dit 16 pagina's tellende artikel op GamePC waarin uitgebreid wordt ingegaan op het overklokken van de Pentium 4. Zoals bekend is de Pentium 4 zelfs met de weinig beschikbare tools en moederborden goed over te klokken. Naast met pure megahertzen bleek de 'RDRAM Turbo' optie in een nog niet gereleased BIOS van de Asus P4T ook nog wat extra performance te geven, hoewel niemand weet wat dit precies doet. In de meeste benchmarks bleek echter dat 200MHz extra CPU kracht in spelletjes minder effect had dan het overclocken van de videokaart:
At this early stage in the Pentium 4's life, we're pleased with the overclocking potential that we've seen today. Every single P4 chip we've tested in our labs with the Asus P4T has been able to overclock at least 200 MHz over its default clock speed. But than again, when you're dealing with 1.5 GHz processors, what difference does a piddly 200 MHz make? Not a whole lot, especially when the current generation of video cards are the bottleneck. Amazingly enough, we've come to a day and age where a 200 MHz overclock can show zero difference in performance, while just a year ago it would have been considered a great overclock.
[...] Nevertheless, it looks Intel will hold the clock speed crown through the end of 2000, whether being overclocked or non-overclocked. It'll surely be an interesting year. Will the Pentium 4 ramp up in speeds as fast as Intel wants them to? Will RDRAM finally be accepted as a viable memory technology? Will the AMD Palomino stomp the Pentium 4 in benchmarks? So many questions indeed. We can't wait to find out the answers.
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