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AS WELL as making microprocessors, Intel also produces its own motherboards and these need to be ready before the CPUs are launched.
That has led a member of the Ace's Hardware forum to do some detective work to track down which frequency speeds are currently supported by Intel's own motherboards.
And, just for the heck of it, he's included the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, which as we've noted before, is slated for an upgrade in the coming few weeks.
What's quite interesting is that the detective work doesn't find any support for a 3.4GHz Prescott. If AMD succeeds in releasing a 3400+ Athlon 64 in the near future, this spells some trouble for Intel.
Our own research, after seeing recent Intel roadmaps, shows that the firm will try and bridge the gap in its line up with a Northwood Pentium 4 3.40GHz. That only has 512K of level two cache.
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