You've gotta go to Pentium 4 (Intel Pentium 4 (Williamete))

Member Name: klik

Product:	Intel Pentium 4 (Williamete)
Date:	17/10/01 (212 review reads)
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Advantages: Speed, Processing power

Disadvantages: Price

The P4 is getting a bad press from many people

I upgraded from a Pentium III 500 MHz system to a Pentium IV 1.5 GHz system.

The Pentium IV comes in eight different processor speeds 2 GHz, 1.90 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.70 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 1.50 GHz, 1.40 GHz, and 1.30 GHz and proves quite sublime when compared to its predecessors.

The best improvement I have seen is in the fact that when I have many programs open, the performance of the programmes is not affected by lack of processing power. The Pentium IV has stopped all the hanging about when re-opening new programme windows and everything is so fast. I like to have a music playing while I am at my computer and usually have a music programme open, (media jukebox), and when I opened a large RAM sapping programme it used to lock up or take too long. Now it is as if it is the first programme to open.

The extra processor speed and capacity generates excellent graphic quality to the extent that games seem more realistic and less like cartoon images, and more like video It makes the 3D action of your favourite games seem so realistic, even video quality and enables clear and smooth audio and video streaming.

The Pentium IV has a 400 MHz system bus, the device that interconnects all the different components of your PC, which means that information is transferred from one component to another at treble the speed of my old Pentium III.


If you are into making video or music productions the processing power of the P4 will more that meet your processing requirements. Encoding of music tracks to and from various codes, MP3, WAV, and CD music are fast and error free.


Internet connections, live video, and audio streaming are excellent and not jittery. Though a lot of the quality of live streaming will depend on the quality of your connection and software.

The Pentium P4 is an excellent chip with stacks of processor capability. I realise that there is cheape
r competition on the market but I have always stuck with Pentium and do not yet see a need to change.

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