Grandpa laces up his skates: How would a single core, 3.8 GHz
Pentium 4 670 from 2005 compete against the latest offerings of AMD and Intel? How about a 2007 quad-core, the 2.4 GHz
Core 2 Quad 6600?
The Tech Report finds out in a
Huge 14-way Roundout, including a
price-performance evaluation (
2nd perspective). For the release of AMD's new midrange DirectX 11 graphic card, the somewhat disappointing
ATI Radeon HD 5830, they've done
Something Similar, this time pitting older cards, including a
Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX from 2006, against the newcomer and today's top performers.
(aggravation warning: hardware review sites love their multi-page layouts)
posted by Monday, stony Monday
on Mar 1, 2010 -
36 comments
It's officially the 20th of November (some places) and the P4 NDA's have lifted. Here come the reviews!
Anandtech gives it poor marks. On a lot of tests it gets creamed.
HardOCP is more kind, but does a much less comprehensive test against a must less formidable competitor.
GamePC gives it a "thumbs down".
I'm still waiting for Tom Pabst's review; I expect it to be brutal.
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Nov 19, 2000 -
6 comments
Intel royally fucks over one of its best customers. We don't ordinarily get into hardware here, but what's important about this is that this has a damned good chance of putting ASUS out of business. (And just two weeks after I put an ASUS mobo into my computer, sob. Fortunately,
mine is not one of the ones involved.)
If Intel has any honor (or wants to maintain any kind of reputation) they're going to completely cover ASUS's losses on this, which could easily top a billion dollars. I wonder if they will.
Anyone want to lay odds on when the first lawsuit gets filed? (Or who will sue whom?)
posted by Steven Den Beste
on May 13, 2000 -
5 comments
