Intel Pentium 4 (Willamette)

Features

The Intel® Pentium® 4 processor maximizes the performance of cutting-edge technologies such as digital video and online gaming, and has an innovative design capable of taking full advantage of emerging Web technologies. Currently available (May 2001) at 1.30, 1.40, 1.50, and 1.70 GHz, the Pentium® 4 processor introduces a new generation of processing power with Intel® NetBurst™ microarchitecture:

• Hyper pipelined technology doubles the pipeline depth to 20 stages, significantly increasing processor performance and frequency capability.
• A rapid execution engine pushes the processor's Arithmetic Logic Units to twice the core frequency resulting in higher execution throughput and reduced latency of execution.
• The 400 MHz system bus, the improved Advanced Dynamic Execution, and an improved floating point pushes data efficiently through the pipeline for lifelike video, 3D graphics.
• Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) extends MMX™ and SSE technology, and with the addition of 144 new instructions, the Pentium® 4 processor gives you the advanced technology to get the most out of today's and tomorrow's Internet experience.

Specifications

Cache is where the processor stores frequently accessed instructions or data for faster performance. Intel's® Pentium® 4 processors contain a new advanced Level 1 (L1) instruction cache technology, Execution Trace Cache, that delivers a much higher performance instruction cache. The Execution Trace Cache makes more efficient use of cache memory.

In addition, the Pentium® 4 processor's Level 2 advanced 256 KB transfer cache, built-in memory, delivers increased overall performance.

Motherboard

The motherboard is the main circuit board inside your computer. The motherboard contains the central processing unit, the bus, memory sockets, expansion slots, and other electronic components. The Intel® Pentium® 4 processor uses Intel's® highest performance desktop motherboard, the Intel® D850GB motherboard.

Chipset

A number of integrated circuits designed to perform one or more related functions, the chipset is often used to refer to the core functionality of a motherboard. Optimized for the Intel® NetBurst™ microarchitecture, the new Intel® 850 chipset contains numerous integrated circuits and lives at the core of your motherboard. The 850 chipset, together with the 400MHz system bus, gives you the complete performance platform for awesome computing power

The internal bus connects all the computer components to the chipset and main memory. It is a collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one part of a computer to another. The 400 MHz system bus of the Pentium® 4 processor is an advanced system that delivers three times the bandwidth of the Intel® Pentium® III processor system bus. This provides a 3.2 gigabyte transfer speed between the Pentium® 4 processor and the memory controller and is the highest bandwidth desktop system bus available, delivering more responsive system performance.

RAM

Random Access Memory (RAM) is your computer's main source of memory. The Pentium® 4 processor works with dual channel RDRAM for maximum performance. Balanced with the 3.2 GB/sec data transfer rate the dual channel RDRAM increases with the processor frequency for complete, optimized performance.