Intel Pentium 4 2.4G 533 Northwood and D850EMD2 (i850E) (1)
Overclocker 7 May 2002

Time flies, nowadays we see the technological changes rapidly. Almost every quarter we see new products supersede and brings advancements in speed but also overall performance to the systems we use today.

Today, Intel launches their latest new offerings, a series of Pentium 4 processors based on the 533Mhz / 400 Mhz system bus and the i850E chipset mainboard. The Intel 850E chipset is an "extension" of the 850 chipset with an official support of the new series of processors running on 133Mhz FSB (or rather 533Mhz). The Intel 850E chipset features dual RDRAM channel support and is designed to take advantage of P4 power that delivers enhanced features and 3.2GBs bandwidth for maximum performance. 

Fig 1 : Intel D850EMD2 (i850E) mainboard

The P4 533Mhz 2.4G is not very different from the P4 1.8A, 2.0A in the sense that they all has a built in cache of 512K. Both below to the Northwood series of processors. The major difference is the FSB being raised from 100 to 133 (400 to 533 quad). To date, the P4 533Mhz CPU will be the fastest on it's class.  With the release of i850e chipset, a number of questions were raised. e.g. Can the power of P4 2.4G processor's power be further enhanced ? What about the support of PC-1066 RAMBUS ? How does it compare itself on an alternative chipset, this are some of the questions we will try to address in the following review.

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