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Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor Family - 
Superior Performance for Work and Play
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The Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor is designed to deliver performance across usages - such as image processing, video content creation, games and multimedia - where end-users can truly appreciate the performance. With a PC based on the Intel Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology you get advanced performance and multitasking capabilities for today's digital home and digital office applications.

Features and Benefits

Versatility, performance and reliability to meet all your computing needs
Everyone wants something different from their computer - work, play, Internet, music, learning and more. A PC featuring the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor opens the door to many new experiences. It's as versatile as you are.

Greater performance with Hyper-Threading Technology
Hyper-threading enables multi-threaded software applications to execute two software threads in parallel, thereby improving system responsiveness. Intel Pentium 4 Processors enabled with HT Technology deliver performance and multitasking gains that result in increased productivity and efficiency.

Improved Power Management with Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology*[EMM]‡
Intel Pentium 4 Processors that are enabled with Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology allow the operating system to adjust the processor clock down when running applications that require less power. Increased power efficiency brings savings.

Scalability and performance with Intel® 64Φ
Intel® Extended Memory 64 TechnologyΦ (Intel® 64) can improve performance by allowing the system to address more than 4 GB of both virtual and physical memory. Intel 64 also provides support for 64 bit computing to help handle the applications of tomorrow.

Execute Disable Bit** functionality protects your investment
Execute Disable Bit** can prevent certain classes of malicious "buffer overflow" attacks when combined with a supporting operating system.
Learn more about Intel® Pentium® 4 processors:
Δ Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See page for details.
‡ Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology for specified units of this processor will be available in the 2nd quarter of 2006. See the Processor Spec Finder at http://processorfinder.intel.com or contact your Intel representative for more information.
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