P4 800FSB+Intel 875 and Intel 865 Chipsets Review

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Conclusion

Lets sum it all up now. Due to a significant increase in the processor bus frequency of Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPUs, Intel managed to improve the performance of its platforms. If we compare the performance of Pentium 4 3.0GHz with that of competing CPUs, we will see that Intels solutions win in a much greater number of applications now. Intel owes its success to the new chipsets supporting dual-channel DDR SDRAM in the first place.

 

Speaking about the chipset, which we considered in our investigation today, we can say that i875 and i865 are really outstanding products. These chipsets have every chance to become very popular and widely spread. Although they will hardly be able to repeat the success of the legendary i440BX. They life-time is not so long, because in about a year or so new chipsets with DDR II support will come to replace them. However, even despite this fact, i875 and i865 deserve all our compliments. Beside outrageously high performance, these chipsets appeared the first solutions in the industry to support SerialATA and RAID arrays, and featuring an individual bus for high-speed network connections. No doubt that these innovations will be really demanded in the market.

 

And in conclusion I would like to stress once again that Hyper-Threading technology, which was first introduced in Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz and now has found its place in the new Pentium 4 3.0GHz, proved to be a really smart way to increase the system performance. This technology allowed speeding up the work in many applications so significantly, that the competing CPUs without it hardly have any chances left. Therefore, it is a very pleasing fact that we will soon see CPUs with lower clock rates than 3GHz featuring this technology.

 

Well, lets wait and see if AMD manages to strike back this time. Athlon XP 3200+ and the new Athlon64 family are approaching already...