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4 central processing unit (cpu), 1 overview – Asus P4PE User Manual

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2-4

Chapter 2: Hardware information

2.4

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

2.4.1 Overview

The motherboard comes with a surface mount 478-pin Zero Insertion
Force (ZIF) socket. The socket is designed for the Intel

®

Pentium

®

4

Processor in the 478-pin package with 512KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron
process. This processor includes the Intel

®

NetBurst™ micro-architecture

that features the hyper-pipelined technology, rapid execution engine,
533/400MHz system bus, and execution trace cache. Together, these
attributes improve system performance by allowing higher core
frequencies, faster execution of integer instructions, and data transfer
rates of 3.2GB/s and 4.2GB/s.

This motherboard will support Intel

®

Pentium

®

4 CPUs with Hyper-

Threading technology when available.

Note in the illustration that the CPU has a gold triangular mark on one
corner. This mark indicates the processor Pin 1 that should match a
specific corner of the CPU socket.

Incorrect installation of the CPU into the socket may bend the pins and
severely damage the CPU!

Gold Mark