![]() They are now focusing on other Pentium 4 processor models with up to 3.8GHz clock speeds, initially increasing their performance using a larger 2MB Level 2 cache similar to their expensive existing 'Extreme Edition' models (discussed in PC Notes February 2004).Ī larger cache benefits any application that needs to repeatedly access lots of the same data - games, for instance, and some reverb plug-ins - but often makes little difference to the performance of mainstream applications. In a surprise move announced in mid-October, Intel have abandoned their plans to release a 4GHz version of the Pentium 4 Prescott processor (originally promised by the end of 2004) and have moved their engineers onto other projects. Intel abandon their 4GHz Pentium processor speed target and shift their attention to the dual-core technology first espoused by AMD. ![]() This photograph, courtesy of AMD Zone, shows that a dual-core Opteron processor could use exactly the same package as a single-core model, providing a possible upgrade path for owners of some existing Opteron motherboards after a BIOS update.
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