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insight % tips and tric s

10 POWER TIPS FOR iron out the bugs and flaws Willamette or North-

INTEL-BASED SYSTEMS that may crop up. Newer BIOS wood

updatescan also mean signif- 8 While the newer North-

The right installation will pave the way for icant performance boosts. wood Pentium 4 processors

trouble-free operation and let you harness thebuilt around the 0.13-micron

6 To HyperThread or fabrication process are more

full potential of your PC. Keep in mind thenot

? popular than their older 0.18-following tips while buying and installing an Int

el s new 3.06 GHz micron Willamette counter-

Intel-based processor processor now incorporates a parts, the latter is still available

technology called Hyper- in the mar et. The Willamette

1 Keeping your cool just a dab too much thermal Threading, which enables the processors draw more power

Since processors are con- paste and it will ooze out. Also processor to perform far better and therefore generate more

tinuously stressing on ma

e sure there are no air when running multiple appli- heat. Also, the Northwood

faster speeds, cooling becomes bubbles. cationssimultaneously. How- processors integrate twice the

an important issue gift your ever, this comes at a price and amount of L2 cache (512 KB)

processor a rated heatsin and 3 Power to run you should opt for it only if as compared to 256 KB inte-

cooling fan combination. Due to additional power you nee

d the high perform- grated by the Willamettes.

Most processors come with requirements, all Pentium ance for executing multiple

the heatsin and cooling fan 4 processors need the extra tas s.You will also need to 9 Special drivers

in tow, but you may require a +12 V rail to run correctly. confirmif your motherboard Intel supplies drivers for

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better cooling solution, espe- Therefore, ma e sure the supports HyperThreading. the new 800-series

cially in the case of the Pen- power supply for your newchipsets (including the 845,

tium 4 processors. processor has the necessary 7 A question of memory 845-DDR and 850 chipsets)

four-pin +12 V connector that Thecurrent scenario called the Intel Application

2 How much thermal goes into the ATX12V connec- gives users the choice of Accelerator driver another

paste? tor on your motherboard SDRAM, DDR and RDRAM fancy name for the UDMA

If your heatsin is cov- both your power supply and memoryin a Pentium 4- drivers. These increase the

ered by thermal tape, you motherboard should support based system. DDR memory performance of your IDE

don't need to apply any ther- this connector. offershigh data transfer devices quite significantly.10 mal paste. Otherwise, apply bandwidth and is priced They offer better boot times

4 Go for quality lower than RDRAM. Howev- and also surpass the 137 GB

Don't s imp on the er, RDRAM's higher data limitation of the IDE drives in

motherboard a high- transfer

rate ma

es it ideally the native Widows drivers.

quality motherboard may suitedto demanding applica-

ma e you a few thousand tions such as gaming, CAD Application sup-

rupees poorer, but will guar- modelling and graphics- port for special

antee far greater stability intensive, texture-heavy app- 10 instruction sets

and support for hardware, lications. Also, RDRAM needs Intel processors have special

chipset and BIOS. You ll also to be installed in pairs, unli e instruction sets such as SSE2

get more features such as the DDRor SDRAM this that help deliver better per-

more overcloc ing options needs t

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o be ept in mind formance with certain types

and integrated peripherals. while buying memory mod- of data. Ensure that you loo

ules. These three types of out for applications that sup-

5 BIOS updates memories cannot be used on port these special instruction

Ma e sure you buy a the same system, therefore, sets when using a P4 proces-

motherboard that offers chooseyour camp with care sor. In some cases, you might

regular BIOS and driver as youwill not be able to need to install specific

The Pentium 4 s Thermal Heat updates on the company Web change your memory type patches that let these appli-

Spreader protects and site. This spells great support later w

ithout also changing cations use the specialdissapates heat from its core for newer hardware and helps the mot

herboard. instruction sets.

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