Attention RC5 crackers....

[shabby]

Dont buy the Pentium 4!!!

 

[vi edit]

Chart only....

Bwuahaha...somebody remind again why exactly I would want to buy this overpriced turd?

 

[medic]

Notice at the bottom of the page?

For more information on how you can join our RC5 team click here.

Thanks for the plug Boss!

 

[Noriaki]

vi_edit: You sir have obviously not been fully brainwashed by intel.
I think you should report for at least 7 consectutive days of intel propaganda, at that point you will simply be unable to survive knowing that your CPU doesn't have NetBust architecture.

Hahaha what a crappy RC5 cracker! What happened to their Double pumped ALU that will make integer apps sooooo fast! *Noriaki is laughing his ass off at Intel right now*

Edit: hahaha NetBust! that wasn't even intentional...I think I'll leave it though.

 

[HigherGround]

because 1500megurtz is more then 1000meguhertzov and more is baetter!!! eenugh seid, i will naw go and play width my frend - GUTB, goot nite/

 

[WetSprocket]

I really feel sorry for all those uniformed people. wait a minute, no I don't!!!
Maybe if Intel would get back to putting their customers first they might get to keep that big stockpile of cash they have.

 

[Syborg1211]

Jeez, such negativity. Wait until the 2ghz P4 though. And all you saying that the P4 is going to lose all their money and stuff, get real! Anandtech people are probably like only 1% of all the comsumers and the rest of the uninformed people will buy clock frequency. I doubt Intel's first priority is satisfying 1% of the computer comsumers. The rest will buy the P4 just so they can say they have a faster computer, but in reality they don't. And you are all acting like cpus are the only industry of computers that Intel works in. Get real, they could totally give up the cpu market and still have more money tham AMD for a very, very long extended period of time. Just be content that you know enough to avoid the P4, at least for now...

 

[Deeko]

Hmm....not to support the P4 or anything here, but I'm sure there will be an RC5 core for the P4 released that will substantially increase it's RC5 speed.

 

[LocutusX]

I don't see what the big deal is. The P4 is just based on an immature micro-architecture. Immature because it's so new, and nothing can be freshly developed "mature". The Pentium Pro also got it's ass kicked on benchmarks and real-world performance test when it was first released, in late 1995 to 1996. The dominant operating system then was Windows 95 and the 150mhz part was no faster than a 120mhz Pentium Classic in terms of mainstream Win95 performance. Since many people still used Win31 then, the processor's Windows 3.1x performance was even worse - just slightly more than a Pentium-90. The same thing appears to be happening to the P4 right now.

Although Intel will market this chip to the contrary, it will take at least a year, or two, for the applications to come out, that will showcase what the P4's micro-architecture is capable of. Too bad Intel will be harping McKinley by then.

 

[snow patrol]

The thread title really should be:

Attention EVERYBODY!

 

[MrGrim]

Why are you happy about the P4 being shit? It's an overpriced Intel CPU that performs worse than AMD's cheaper CPU's. This will result in AMD selling their CPUs at a higher price. What did you think? That you could laugh at Intel and their P4 and see the AMD chips get cheaper? Sorry doesn't work that way. I'm really sad as a concumer to see the P4 performing so bad (so far) for such a high price.

 

[Remnant2]

Nod. Here's my take :

Remember the Athlon launch? Alot of the members of the tech media (those who were intel-biased or worked at ZDNet, same thing I guess) made waves saying how the Athlon wasn't a "real" 7th generation core, because it didn't perform 30% better across the board, rather showing a 5-10% improvement per clock across the board against Katmai, and FP-heavy apps which were upwards of 50% faster.

So now out comes Intel's 7-gen core, where are those people now? If AMD released a next-gen processor that performed like Willy does, they would have been crucified. I think Intel is going to learn that they're no longer immune either.

They need to get the 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8ghz CPUs out NOW. If Willy is made for mhz and not ipc, then show it -- launching at a mhz level where you can barely beat your own previous product is embarrassing!

 

[Soccerman]

I don't know about u, but the analasys of the benchmarks wasn't that great.. Quake 3 is well optimized for SSE, yet barely optimized for 3DNow! and we don't see a mention of that having an affect on scores..

little things like that are what annoy me.. otherwise pretty good review Anand!

 

[PG]

You guys could be eating your words relatively soon.

Read this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?start=21&catid=39&threadid=277454

specifically, the post by JHutch:

There is one piece of information that may make the P4 an RC5 cracking god...

SSE2 provides new instructions. One of them is the ability to handle two 64-bit SIMD-INT operations at once. If these instructions work like RC5 needs them to, we may have the second CPU in existence (the G4 being the first) that can bitslice a RC5-64 key. Take a look at the phenomenol key-rates the G4 can reach and you see the possible heights the P4 may be able to achieve...

Only time will tell if SSE2 can be adapted for use with RC5, though...

JHutch