Intel Pentium 4 Installation Notes

Boxed Intel
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Pentium
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4 Processor Installation Notes
Before installing the processor, please consider integration issues found in the installation
notes available on the World Wide Web.
The heatsink may have thermal interface material attached to the bottom as shown in
Fig. 1. (Be careful not to damage the thermal interface material.) If not, use the enclosed
syringe and apply all of the thermal interface material to the top of the processor as
shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 1
mPGA478B
Fig. 2
Install the processor retention mechanism (A) following the motherboard
manufacturer’s installation instructions. Open the socket handle (B). Install the
processor by carefully aligning the pins to the socket (C). Close the socket handle (D).
B
A
C
D

Intel Pentium 4 Specifications

General

Architecture	x86
Core Count	1
Microarchitecture	NetBurst
Manufacturer	Intel
Core Names	Willamette, Northwood, Prescott, Cedar Mill
Virtualization Technology	No
Release Date	November 20, 2000
Clock Speed	1.3 GHz to 3.8 GHz
FSB Speed	400 MHz to 1066 MHz
Socket	Socket 423, Socket 478, LGA 775
Introduced	2000
Product Line	Pentium
Front Side Bus	400 MHz to 1066 MHz
Hyper-Threading	Yes (Prescott and later)
64-bit Support	Yes (Prescott and later)
Instruction Set	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
Discontinued	2008
Process Technology	180 nm, 130 nm, 90 nm, 65 nm
L2 Cache	256 KB, 512 KB, 1 MB, 2 MB
Lithography	180 nm, 130 nm, 90 nm, 65 nm
L1 Cache	8 KB