There are8 things you should note if buying an Intelprocessor. If you are buying a Desktop PC, you need not be concerned with some of them.
1. PROCESSOR MODEL
- Celeron [ Cel ]- Cheapest but slow
- Pentium 4 [ P4 ] - Fast but affordable.
- Pentium D [PD]-These use the latest Dual Core Technology.What is Dual core then? A processor has a central Core where calculations and processing is done. Single core Processors such as P4 have 1 core. The PD has 2 cores in one processor. So, it is superb for multitasking.Unfortunately, it's slightly slower than the P4 for gaming as Games are still designed based on Single core processors. e.g. With the PD 805 , each core operates at 2.66GHz to give you a Total speed of 5.3 GHz. If you run two applications - Microsoft Word and Windows Media Player at the same time, each application is run at 2.66 GHz by each core.
- Core2 - Faster than the PD and energy efficient. Core2 comes in Core2Duo, Core2Solo and Core2Extreme flavours. Core2Duo is the ideal choice to go for. The Duo stands for Dual Core : ) Unlike the PD, this is ideal for gaming and even outperforms the P4.
- Pentium Extreme Edition [XE] - P4,PD and Core2 ranges have a XE Processor. Like the name, the Price is also EXTREME ! The XE's shall not be discussed here as their Prices are way beyond most of our budgets.
2. CACHE
There are two types of memories - SDRAM
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