Last week, Intel Corp.’s flagship processor was a Pentium four running at 3.06GHz ; today, it is a Pentium four running at the fractionally slower 3.0GHz. What happened? A new chipset platform and quicker system bus — 800MHz rather than the prior 533MHz ( technically, quad-pumped 200MHz rather than 133MHz ). Using dual-channel DDR400 system [...]
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