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Old 25-08-2007, 11:44 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Default Re: Suggest a good Branded desktop PC

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Originally Posted by Sylar
What Pentium D did was have 2 dies in it, each featuring a single P4 core connected by a bus and each die having its own onboard cache (thats why it was written 2x1MB), sumthing like having two P4s being put together.. The rated speed was the total speed of both the cores..
I doubt that. U mean A P D 2.8Ghz has 1.4Ghz core? Nup both cores runs at specified frequency.No way a 1.4Ghz proccy cud develop dat much heat. And each core is hyper threaded also. But its main drawback is the limited L1 cache and independant caches.
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