Collection · Computer
PC, Pentium 4 single-core class
The Pentium 4 was built around a long pipeline and very high clock speeds, an approach that ran into heat and stopped scaling.
Technical record
- Category
- Computer
- Collection status
- Held by ATX Computer Museum
- Reference
- ATX-CAT-PC-PENTIUM-4-SINGLE-CORE-CLASS
- Processor
- Intel Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz
- Architecture
- NetBurst
- Packaging
- Retail boxed processor
Background
This boxed 3 GHz Pentium 4 records an era when clock speed itself was part of the product story. Intel’s NetBurst generation pushed frequency and Hyper-Threading into mainstream desktop PCs, shaping the performance language of the early 2000s.