More Intel, AMD chip reviews up

If you look at our previous story, you'll see that quite a few sites, including AMD Zone, JC's and HardOCP were keeping a pretty good tally, so we'll content ourselves with just a sprinkling of ones we've seen today.

Ace's HW has its own reviews up on its site, which you can find here. The site also reviews multiple motherboards for the different chips. Ace's concludes that the extra 256K cache turns the Pentium 4 2.2GHz into a serious player in the workstation market, and think that the Athlon MP is definitely going to need a heap more cache if it wants to compete with Intel's Mrs Prestonia, when she comes out of her workstation closet.

We were hunting for the c't take on the processors and now there is a solid piece of work up on the Heise web site, and which you can find by clicking here - with some interesting benchmarks.

The Anandtech reviews weren't up when we did our roundup yesterday afternoon, but they are now, and they're here. Again, Anand says that additional cache and the .13 micron shrink make the Pentium 4 far more competitive than before. Both it and the Athlon XP are now far closer competitors than before.

Our roadmaps show that Intel will easily hit over 2.53GHz during this year, so we'll be interested to see what future speed revs bring in terms of wins and marketplace.

There a lengthy review of the AMD Athlon XP2000+ at Van's HW, in two parts.

And Ace's has noticed a review of the Intel processors at Hot Hardware - a site we haven't visited before - sorry about that lads/lasses.

You can find our own review of the 2.0A Pentium 4 Northwood here and we'll soon be able to test it with an Intel-own 845D for Diesel board. Thanks to Intel for that.

You can find yesterday's summary of the chip Webwatch he re. µ