Review: Pentium 4 at 1,4, 1,5 and 1,6 GHz
Pricing and Availability
Pentium 4 is not at all sold at a cheap rate. Even the "entry level version" at 1400 MHz already ranges round about 644 US-Dollars, which is very much the same price level as for the Athlon 1200.
Clockspeed [MHz] | Athlon 200/266 FSB | Pentium III | Pentium 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
Prices given for units of 1000 CPUs for OEMs as of November 16, 2000. | |||
1500 | -- | -- | 819 |
1400 | -- | -- | 644 |
1200 | 612/673 | -- | -- |
1133 | 506 (FSB 266) | -- | -- |
1100 | 460 (FSB 200) | -- | -- |
1000 | 350/385 | 465 | -- |
950 | 282 (FSB 200) | -- | -- |
933 | -- | 348 | -- |
900 | 215 (FSB 200) | -- | -- |
866 | -- | 241 | -- |
850 | 193 (FSB 200) | 241 | -- |
800 | -- | 193 | -- |
Considering a Pentium 4 one also has to make expensive RDRAM part of the calculation, and this makes up for the very high price of a Pentium 4 system. Dell's Dimension 8100 is available for a whopping 3398 Dollars with a 19 inch CRT, GeForce2 Ultra graphics, 128 MBytes of RDRAM a CD writer and a DVD drive.