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As previously reported, the new chip runs at 3.46GHz, a slight increase in clock speed from the previous version, and incorporates 2MB of cache that enlarges its main pool of onboard memory to boost performance. The chip also features a 1,066MHz front-side bus, which speeds up the movement of data back and forth from the chip to memory.
Mainstream Pentium 4s have 1MB of main cache and an 800MHz bus--though Intel, which has redrawn its processor road map several times this year, said in October that it will step Pentium 4 chips up to 2MB of cache next year. At the same time, Intel said it had abandoned plans to deliver a 4GHz Pentium 4.
Processors such as the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition and Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon 64 FX represent the peak of performance in the desktop market and appear mainly in game machines fitted with the latest graphics cards and high-performance storage systems to render games with the greatest speed. AMD's new Athlon 64 FX-55 chip hit the market on Oct. 19, meaning that a number of new high-performance PCs are now available for gamers.
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