Re: A slight redesign of Banias for a desktop CPU could reveal a serious contender to the speed crown
Banias is a new PIII core stepping, with a wider, faster FSB, SSE2, 1 meg of cache, and substantially improved power management.
It's a good chip (the PIII was a superbly balanced core) but the PIII core has had trouble keeping up with the Athlon core, in the past.
OTOH, Intel has been purposely crippling PIII since P4 came out (slow FSB, etc.) to make P4 look better, so a PIII "unchained" might do very well.
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