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pentium 4 dual core....
Name: mr_g (by Tommie) Date: November 22, 2005 at 10:20:58 Pacific OS: win xp pro sp2 CPU/Ram: pentium 3/384
Comment:
i was wondering if there were any intel pentium 4 with dual core out there??..i heard of a pentium d with dual core....just wondering if there were any p4 with dual core....if so where can i find it??..
Name: Chuck 2 Date: November 22, 2005 at 10:37:16 Pacific
Reply:
Guess that may be called P4 w/Hyperthreading Technology
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: November 22, 2005 at 19:25:42 Pacific
Reply:
Well, a dual core is a real smp more than a logical processor is.
Anyway a pentium d is really a pentium 4 class processor just that there is almost two of them on a package. There is some 64 bit stuff too. http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium_D/
Now waht Chuck 2 say is that there is plenty of P4's that have the previous scheme bein HT. HT isn't a true dual core but a combo soft/firmware processor. It chokes when you really need it and as suspected and reported all along. HT slows down many systems and applications.
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Response Number 3
Name: jefro Date: November 22, 2005 at 19:26:41 Pacific
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Name: mr_g (by Tommie)
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