The 1.33Ghz Athlon and 1.6Ghz Pentium 4 take the honours here. We were pleasantly surprised to find the test system including board, processor and memory were able to run flawlessly at 160fsb.

The 8 KB L1 data cache is small enough to allow two cycle load to use<BR>latency even at the sky high clock rates P4s operate at. The role of<BR>the L1 is to provide data in the common case (>90% ...