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Old 11-15-2005, 06:23 PM   #1
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Pentium D


Hey I just got a new tower and it has a Pentium D, and I know this is probably a stupid question, but it the Pentium D using the i386 Architecture?
 
Old 11-15-2005, 07:40 PM   #2
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yes, the Pentium D is a dual core i386 CPU. This means it acts as two processors, even though it's only one chip. I believe(correct me if I'm wrong) that all versions of the Pentium D are dual core(as opposed to some being dual core, and others not.)

So in short, yes.
 
Old 11-16-2005, 12:18 AM   #3
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Yes, Pentium D is a package of two Pentium 4 cores. See the Wikipedia article
 
  


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