Mid-April saw the much-anticipated launch of Intel's latest performance chipset, the i875P or Canterwood. Using many of the performance traits found in the Granite Bay, but bumping up the all-important FSB from 133 to 200 (800 QDR), the extra bandwidth pushed the Canterwood to the top of the class, even though it was combined with a slower CPU than the incumbent 3.06. The 3.00GHz P4 / CW combination pushed back the performance envelope of home PCs by combining dual-channel PC3200 RAM to an improved Northbridge.
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