OCAddiction has posted a review on the Intel P4 1.8GHz Northwood CPU.

Still, the performance crown somewhat eludes Intel, since AMD XP processors are certainly holding their own. And with the .13 micron AMD Thoroughbreds due out shortly, there is no telling what the immediate future holds for Intel. Intel easily owns the market in raw Processor SPeeD, yet the AMD XP Chips arguably outperform even Intel's fastest processor.

While I believe the Northwood is certainly a worthy CPU, what we basically want to do here today is show you performance of this chip in a few well known benchmarks at stock speed, as well as the overclockability of the chip.

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