Bij AnandTech hebben ze en review on-line gezet van de Pentium 4 op 1,7 GHz. Zoals je hier kon lezen is deze vanaf vandaag te koop. In een eerdere review waren de mannen van AnandTech niet echt te spreken over de Pentium 4 maar deze keer zijn ze een stuk positiever over de nieuwste CPU van Intel. Vooral nu de prijs een stuk aantrekkelijker ligt en het RDRAM flink in prijs is gedaald, is de Pentium 4 het overwegen waard, aldus AnandTech. Zeker voor bandbreedte-grootverbruikers die zich veel bezig houden met beeld- en geluidsbewerking is de Pentium 4 een must:
When we first reviewed the Pentium 4, the conclusion was simple: don’t be early adopters. However today, the picture has changed quite a bit. The Pentium 4’s prices have or are in the process of dropping significantly, and the price of RDRAM has declined as well. The processor is now clocked 200MHz higher than when we first looked at it, and we also have new benchmarks to truly stress the platform as well as its competitors (SYSMark 2001 and Benchmark Studio). The real question is, have our recommendations changed?
The recommendations themselves haven’t changed, but now we can make much more specific suggestions as to what route you should consider. Quite possibly the most useful benchmark in defining what type of user you are would be SYSMark 2001. If you find yourself the type of person that is encoding a video file while working on editing an image and a video, switching to a web design application, putting together a demo in Flash and other types of scenarios like that then the Pentium 4 is more suited for your usage style. If you are this type of a user then you do demand the greater amounts of bandwidth that the Pentium 4’s cache, FSB and memory bus can offer. Be prepared to pay a premium over an Athlon, but at least you are getting greater performance for it.
Met dank aan Bombadil voor de tip.