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Re: Is a Pentium 4 a Dual core?

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:26:24 GMT

In reality chances are you PC will not support a quad CPU, you will probably have to upgrade your mother board first, and then it depends A LOT on your graphics card and ram as well, you best option to play bad company on a medium setting will be to upgrade you pentium 4 cpu to a nice affordable core2duo something like a E7600(low budget) or a core2duo E8200 8300 even the E6xxx series will duo way better (much much better) than the pentium 4 you have installed now and you can buy them now for around $50-80 bucks. but make sure your mother board can handle such CPUs before you buy.

by the way, what are the specs on your PC?

Re: Is a Pentium 4 a Dual core?

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:24:33 GMT

You have a SINGLE CORE CPU, 1 CORE ONLY... some of the PENTIUM 4's use Hyper-threading technology (HT), this makes your CPU work as if it were 2 but it only emulates a second one. Yes your PC reads it as if had 2 cores installed but in reality you only have one. pentium 4 3.0ghz HT(1core) will never be as fast as dual-core 3.0ghz (2cores). Hope this helps...

Re: hot processor

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:36:56 GMT

"GRAY THING" what is it??? *HEATSINK COMPOUND*... anything over 60 is HOT!!!! buy the best paste and try again but buy the good expensive one, then reset everything and you will see the difference. IF no change try your bios set-up for best TEMP settings, i can help with that as well... whatever you do have fun as it could be the last thing you do for fun....

Re: Dead CPU?

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:23:13 GMT

Unless you can be 100% sure... it sounds like a dead CPU... do you now the history of such? overclocking does kill processors!!! if you can not test on a different motherboard consider it dead. send it back or get a refund!!!. most sellers DO !NOT! tell you about overclocking (dead) until is too late... EBAY ANY ONE????????????

please reply... good luck!!!!!!!!!

Re: What mother board will this processor fit

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:42:04 GMT

yes, ECS G31T-M will support pentium 4 5xx and 6xx series processors. with that in mind you should be able to make it work. keep an eye on the cpu temp. have fun.

Re: What mother board will this processor fit

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:11:17 GMT

It should show the socket type. 478, 775, etc ... that would be the type of motherboard you need. will it run as dual core? look for the letters HT on it, if you see them then yes you could run it as dual core. (but it is not dual core). Is it any good? it depends, did it come out of a working pc? as far as GOOD in general goes... i would NOT build a computer around this CPU. specially after having to buy a really good cooling system, pentium 4's on lga775 tend to run HOT! (that is my own experience). just my 2 cents.

Re: Is a Pentium 4 a Dual core?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:28:27 GMT

631 is NOT dual core. however you can activate HT on bios set up screen and then your computer will see it as 2 cores.

read about it here

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium4/index.htm

What is the difference? e2160 dual-core vs e2160 core 2 duo?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:48:39 GMT

Hi, i hope some one here has the answer i am looking for.

What is the difference between these 2 CPU's

Intel pentium dual core e2160 (mo)(go) 1.8 ghz (1m,800 mhz)

and this one...

Intel core 2 duo e2160 (l2) 1.8 ghz (1m, 800 mhz)

which one should i buy and WHY?

Thanks.