Intel Pentium D 820 and i945G/P Chipset Showcase
In recent months, the race between the two major industry players to bring dual-core processing to the masses has heated up. On April 4th, Intel delivered its first dual-core Pentium offering in the form of the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840. AMD was soon to follow, on May 9th, releasing its dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4800+.
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Hothardware
Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz Performance Profile
Though clock speed is no longer a true measure of processor performance, it's hard to argue with a few hundred more MHz no matter which CPU architecture you'd consider. Regardless, it's clear the industry as a whole, as well as the world's largest chip manufacturer, Intel, has now embarked on an effort to provide more computing power per clock cycle, focusing on IPC (Instructions Per Clock Cycles) metrics as better manifestations of overall performance. As the PC and workstation marketplaces now look toward a future of dual-core processors, Intel continues a parallel effort of fleshing out its 6XX Sequence series of processors today with the introduction of the Pentium 4 670.
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Hothardware
Intel Pentium 4 670 and Pentium D 820
Some say we need dual-cores in computers before software writers will embrace parallelism. If this is the case, then the Pentium D 820 is a step in the right direction.
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Hexus
Intel Pentium D & Pentium 4 670
Leicester Square seems to have almost karmic significance for me at the moment and in a few hours I’ll be visiting it for the third time in only two weeks. This time it isn’t to see Star Wars: Episode III but is instead to attend a launch of Intel’s latest technology.
If it were a film though, it would probably be called Two Processors and a Chipset. The stars of this little show are Intel’s latest Pentium 4 – the 670, taking the range up to a heady 3.8GHz. Joining this in Intel’s quest for Galactic domination is the launch of a new chip, the Pentium D. Signalling the arrival of dual-core technology for the consumer this is a great leap forward. The Pentium D is launching in three flavours – the 820, the 830 and the 840 running at 2.8, 3.0 and 3.2GHz respectively. Accompanying the new processor is a new chipset to put it in – the 945 Express available with and without the ‘new and improved’ integrated graphics – 945G with, and 945P, without.
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Trusted Reviews
Pentium D 820
Some of our readers will undoubtedly remember the hype surrounding the Pentium 4 before its launch near the end of 2000. Among a boatload of other speculation, one recurring motif was that the new "NetBurst" architecture was designed to scale very high. At times numbers of "10 GHz by 2005" were being speculated.
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Neoseeker
