Desktop processors reached another milestone today with the release of Intel's 3.06GHz Pentium 4. Surpassing the 3GHz mark is significant--Intel's is the first chip to do so--but the new P4 represents more than just a jump in raw processing speed. The 3.06GHz P4 is also the first desktop chip to include Intel's new Hyper-Threading technology. Available in servers for more than a year now, Hyper-Threading allows a single processor to function as if it were two. The result is a processor that can run two parts of an application at once or multiple applications more efficiently.

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Myea... I'm not really interested in GHzes... more in how many operations a CPU can do per second. AMD 2800+ kicks P4's ass imo... Not to mention the AMD "hammer" coming soon...

*drools*..... man when that baby come mobile *hits the floor in a seizure of passion*

Just think though. Thats good for a Pc but that super computer that they've mqe in japan is more powerful than 6,400,000 home PCs in one...

Just think maybe in 20 years all that power will be in one little chip...

*drools so much he has to get a bucket*

but...can the video card support true color???

yes...im being stupid...no need to flame....

I invented a computer that can perform billions of simultaniouse equations at once and ran on quantum fluctuations...unfortunately i found it hard to wire a monitor up to a cup of tea so i just drank it.

hehehe

i wish i could invent computers....

Current videocards all support truecolor. The human eyes are physically uncapable of recognising beyond 24 bit color... So there's no real need to go beyond that.

but....true color is 32 bit....

Yes. Because 16 bit was too little, and computers increment in factors of 2.

oh right.....

but does that mean that the monitor is capable of showing colors we cant see?

Not always, but mostly. Monitors (CRT and TFT) are analog devices, theoretically capable of an infinity of shades. Practically, above 16 bit is harder to notice...

I got 3G CPU's in finally, and they are like $1299 crap, too much $$$

They will have the 6Ghz out by this time next year. So don't worry it's not that fast.

haha true true

Processing speeds double evey year. It's actually a true fact too. I read about it in an article in Maximum PC.

That sounds about right

Yuppers. Supposedly there is a Radeon Card that is better than GeForce right now. Although GeForce is coming out with a better card than that really soon.

i sell both of those radeon cards, the 9500 and the 9700 PRO, both are claimed to be better than NVidia, but as you say, NVidia does have something up thier sleves