Review: NordicHardware
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It's not often pioneering changes are made on the CPU market. The times we've seen large performance improvements have been when the CPU manufacturers moved to new and more efficient manufacturing processes, and in between smaller steps in the shape of updated revisions and steppings. Historically a substantial revolution happens about every 3 to 4 years due to the launch of a completely new CPU architecture. With a slow entry on the portable market the Pentium M came about a year and a half ago and by then Intel started realizing that there maybe is a solution to the rampant problem the Pentium 4 CPUs were. Then nothing, until 2006 when Intel showed preliminary performance figures of its upcoming architecture. Enthusiast websites and forums were having a fit - the results presented were just too good to be true. By mid May we were invited for some quality time and to test the new CPUs. The benchamrks were still the same, but the setups were still configured by Intel. Even though we by now were in general convinced, we would be more confident having some of our own setups to run tests with, which is what we will show you today.
Aug 6, 2006, 12:48 PM
