PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

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(^66) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide


Intel Pentium III


The Pentium III processor features 9.5 million transistors, a 32K L1 cache, and 512K of
L2 cache. The Pentium III is available with clock speeds of 450MHz to 1GHz and is
packaged in a second-generation single-edge connector package called the SECC2,
shown in Figure 3-20. The SECC2 package, which fits into the Slot 1 bus, is designed to
conduct and remove heat better than earlier single-edge packages.

Figure 3-18. The VIA Cyrix III microprocessor. Photo courtesy of VIA Technologies, Inc.

Figure 3-19. The AMD K6 Processor. Photo courtesy of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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