Hexus has posted their Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4B review

Over the past few months we have seen Intel becoming more and more competitive in the desktop CPU market. Currently they have the stronghold over AMD with the Pentium 4. The CPU was launched over 18 months ago which is a long time in the CPU world. AMD had stomping CPUs out there which were not going to be beaten easily and with the AMD pricing points it was going to be hard for Intel to get the upper hand. Intel released the P4 but the performance didn't give what we was needed to the market - it was more of a case of getting the market to adopt the new architecture and other new factors - such as Rambus and a new PSU/Mainboard - 100% new.

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