Peenie Wallie

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March 4, 2005

Intel's 64-bit Pentium 4 660

The Pentium 4 6xx-series sees Intel finally entering 64-bit desktop CPU market. The new chips also offer improved power management (EIST) and memory overflow protection (XD bit).

AMD has led the 64-bit desktop processor field up to now with the Athlon 64 -- although there is, as yet, no shipping 64-bit Windows operating system, which is necessary to make the most of a 64-bit CPU. However, at the beginning of February Microsoft made Release Candidate 2 of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition available to testers, and the final version is due to ship at the beginning of April.

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmemory/0,39024015,39189912,00.htm

Posted by Peenie Wallie on March 4, 2005 at 9:21 PM

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