Bij Sharky hebben ze nu alweer een Coppermine getest, maar nu gelijk de 800MHz versie. Eigenlijk was het een 733MHz Coppermine, maar de multliplier kon van 5.5 naar 6.0 worden gekrikt, en tada! daar is je Coppermine op 800MHz. Zoals we van Craig Campanaro zijn gewend heeft hij dit Intel chippie weer een liefdevolle behandeling gegeven:
At 800MHz, the P3 Coppermine is delivering more that a 100% performance gain over last year's Pentium II 400 CPU and .it's somewhat surprising to think that we're quickly approaching the introduction of CPUs that will be described by their Gigahertz speed rating rather than their Megahertz speed rating.To put that in perspective it's taken Intel roughly 20 years to go from a 1MHz desktop processor to a 1000MHz (1GHz) desktop processor. If that rate of progress is maintained, will we be using 100+GHz processors in our desktop PCs 20 years from today? And how long after that will it be before 1THz (Terahertz, or 1000GHz) is achieved?
Only time will tell if engineers can keep building on the impressive gains that have been made thus far, but one thing is certain: Both AMD and Intel must continue to push the edge of the envelope in CPU performance or risk being left behind by the other or external competitors like NEC and Sony as the market moves forward.
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