Intel S478 Pentium 4 1.7Ghz
With clock rates as high as 2GHz, the IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 processor is specifically designed to meet the emerging performance challenges of the business computing environment. From media-intensive content creation and playback to managing multiple foreground and background tasks, the Pentium 4 processor ensures fast, responsive performance for business desktop PCs.
Illustrating the superior capabilities of the Pentium 4 processor is a series of industry benchmarks, which highlight areas such as 3D visualization, multimedia and Web content creation, and video encoding. The tests reveal that a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 processor-based desktop delivers performance as much as 62% faster than a 1GHz desktop based on a Pentium III processor. Behind the significant performance gains:
- High clock frequencies: Pentium 4 processors feature a hyper-pipelined technology that enable speeds of up to 2GHz.
- Improved system bus: A 400MHz front side bus and ultra-fast RDRAM system memory combine for outstanding memory throughput, opening the pipes for graphics and multimedia performance.
- Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE2): 144 new instructions boost performance in areas such as multimedia, 3D and audio/video.
- RDRAM memory: Ultra-fast RDRAM memory combines with the 400MHz system bus to open the pipes for virtually any operation.
Combined, these innovative design characteristics make the Pentium 4 processor the optimal platform for business PCs. Outstanding performance ensures that Pentium 4 processor-based desktops will be able to meet every demand made of them in the fast moving business computing environment.
