Big surprise Pentium IV is out!!!

[Hardware]

As usual our japanese friend gets it first!

I bet we can see some benchmarks 1,4G P4 VS 1,2G TB soon !

 

[Czar]

Came out last week. Still nice to see Intel putting out proccessors out sooner than expected. Though I just think this is a test sample for sale.

 

[AndyHui]

The markings on the processor indicate that it is an engineering sample....the article says so too.

 

[jinsonxu]

Engineering samlpe, add in the NDA, sigh, no benches yet.

 

[Methodical]

if you were to buy it... you could bench it and publish results and intel couldn't do jack about it...

 

[Gunbuster]

The P4 at the intel chipsntips roadshow crashed to blue screens on their powerpoint demos, Intel rep blames it on "software"

 

[AMB]

Did you see the prices:

138,000.00 JPY Japan Yen = 875.341 GBP United Kingdom Pounds

 

[Windogg]

Wow those Japanese are quick!!!!

$1,274,36 (USD)at today's exchange rate. I can get a full TB 1Ghz w/ 256MB Corsair, 45GB IBM 75GXP, GF2 MX, and SL Live for the same price (no monitor of course).

Windogg

 

[Rent]

Agreed Windog... this is the Voodoo5 6000 of processors

 

[NucleusWDS]

You can see pricing details here at AMD3D.com

 

[LXi]

Nobody replied when I posted this. I guess you guys dont read Japanese, thats why.

 

[Rigoletto]

$1274???!
Hey I like hi-tech but I also like the law of diminishing returns.
So I suppose P4 is always going to be 20% faster in clock speed than the competition, but I prefer to spend 20% [*all-in] of the price of the P4 for that something 20% slower instead. Sorry, Intel. And all that with RAMBUS too! Only the most label-conscious are going to buy this right now.

 

[Rigoletto]

fastest Athlon 1.2GHz= £447
asus A7v mobo= £138
128Mb pc100 cas2= £87
total £672

P4 1.4GHz= £875+ extra tax and UK consumer penalty
mobo=£200 i bet
RDRAM 128Mb= £329
total £1404

well OK but you are paying over twice as much for what I bet is actually a 15% performance increase right now. And the teething problems of the new chipset. Are you really that desperate?