Intel targets gamers with Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
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With fears of 64-bit AMD-based gaming PCs obviously driving it on, Intel this week announced the previously unexpected Pentium 4 Extreme Edition microprocessor, which the company says will usher in a new era of high performance online gaming. The Pentium 4 Extreme Edition runs at 3.2 GHz and features a whopping 2 MB of L3 cache in addition to the standard 512 KB of L2 cache featured in standard Pentium 4 CPUs. And like other 3.2 GHz Pentium 4's, the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition features Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology, which lets the CPU divide tasks between different software jobs more efficiently, often giving the performance of dual processors.