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01-Apr-2001

Pentium III Review

The Pentium III brand refers to Intel's 32-bit x86 desktop and mobile microprocessors based on the sixth-generation P6 microarchitecture introduced on February 26, 1999. The brand's initial processors were very similar to the earlier Pentium II-branded microprocessors. The most notable difference was the addition of the SSE instruction set (to accelerate floating point and parallel calculations), and the introduction of a controversial serial number embedded in the chip during the manufacturing process.
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Pentium III Performance Specification

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1 GHz

1 cores

Coppermine

29W

180nm

Socket 370

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32 Bit

Q1'00

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1.75V

100

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0 MHz

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bradeddy222

17:39 Apr-11-2012

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woops, I just put a pointless comma

bradeddy222

17:39 Apr-11-2012

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I remember back when I was about 11 years old.. the pentium III seemed like a badass piece of hardware..
just goes to show you, how crappy our todays processors will look in 12 years..

Awais643

14:57 Mar-09-2012

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i hve 1 p3 processor and it suck balls

Mark

12:12 Nov-10-2011

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http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium-III/ ;-)

NFSwhiplash

18:26 Nov-07-2011

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wizeguy

17:58 Nov-07-2011

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I would love to become a GD member.. Felix can you please make me .. I will be very greatfull to you.. I have not a really great rig.. but please

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GAIMER

07:29 Jul-24-2011

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Worms Armageddon uses the Good old P3

NFSwhiplash

09:59 Jul-14-2011

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@khoiho A few old NFS games. Hehehe. I still have one of these for my older games. Google it, and you may find something that fits your gaming style. :)

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