tech report has one of the better p4 1.7ghz reviews out. some really useful numbers: ps5bench on ps 6.0.1 and lame among those.

Running this suite of tests on these processors has demonstrated a couple of things worth noting about how these CPUs perform. First and foremost, it’s clear the Athlon 1.33GHz is still the big dawg of PC processors. It’s easily the fastest x86-compatible CPU around. Intel’s new entry, the 1.7GHz Pentium 4, performs about like a 1.2GHz Athlon in most situations.

whoa, i did not know that g-force is short ofr “godforce” – steve johnson has written a short feed article on andy o’meara (author of g-force and whitecap). the article mentions dj spooky and his use of g-force. in fact, it was cool hearing him plug it in the sxsw keynote this year… hmm, oh yeah, that stuff needs to go up. first i need to finish my perl chat server for my show in two weeks. my life is so sad. i’ll have a few weeks off soon though…