a pentium 4 has 6 cores.
a pentium 4 has 6 cores.
how many cores does a pentium 4 have?
6
intermediate chipsets (e.g. intel 945) commonly support both single core pentium 4-based cpus as well as dual core pentium d processors. some 945 chipset-based motherboards could be given a bios upgrade to support 65nm core-based cpus. for other chipsets, it also varies, as lga 775 cpu support is a complicated mixture of chipset capability, voltage regulator limitations and bios support. for example g41 chipset doesn't support netburst cpus such as pentium d, pentium extreme edition, pentium 4 and celeron d.









































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bullet::::- list of intel microprocessors









































bullet::::- list of intel pentium 4 microprocessors
lga 775
released on november 20, 2000, the pentium 4 was based on an all new microarchitecture codenamed netburst. pentium 4 processors achieved their high clock speeds by using an extremely long instruction pipeline (20 stages in the willamette, northwood and gallatin cores and 31 stages in the prescott, prescott 2m and cedar mill cores). the pentium 4 became intel's hottest-running single-core processor along with their processor to have the longest instruction pipeline to date. not only that, but the pentium 4's performance was usually disappointing, as it could not often match the performance of amd's athlon, athlon xp and athlon 64 processors, and for the first models, even intel's own pentium iii or even low-end processors such as the amd duron or the p6-based intel celeron. intel tried to fix this problem with the introduction of the prescott core, but it made the pentium 4's problems even worse, as they performed worse than northwood-based pentium 4s in the same clock speed range and generated more heat. the pentium 4 had reached a clock speed limit of 3.8 ghz by november, 2004 and on january 5, 2006 intel released the final pentium 4 models using the cedar mill core, which gave off less heat than prescott. all processors in the pentium 4 ht range have hyper-threading, a feature that makes one physical cpu core work as two logical cores.
list of cpu power dissipation figures