GamePC has posted a review on the Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.0A GHz Processor
It was just over a year ago that Intel launched their first Pentium 4 processors at 1.4 and 1.5 GHz. At the time of their launch, AMD's Thunderbird processors were just hitting 1.1 GHz, so the extra clock speed gave the Pentium 4 an incredible marketing advantage over AMD. While the Pentium 4 had the fastest clock speed at the time of the launch, AMD quickly released new speed grades of the Thunderbird. While basically matching the Pentium 4 on a performance level, albeit not even close on a clock-to-clock level. In the minds of many gamers, the Pentium 4 was considered an immediate flop. Those of who knew how the P4 architecture worked realized that there was plenty of performance to gain in the future.Read more
