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A Historical Processor Overview

Page 1: High Noon Below The Freezing Point
Page 2: A Historical Processor Overview
Page 3: The NVentiv Mach 2 Cooling System
Page 4: The NVentiv Mach 2 Cooling System, Continued
Page 5: 2.9 GHz Or "roughly" One Athlon64 FX 58
Page 6: Odd Multipliers
Page 7: 4 GHz...Barely: Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
Page 8: Test System
Page 9: Benchmarks And Settings
Page 10: OpenGL Benchmarks
Page 11: SPEC Viewperf, Continued
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Page 22: SiSoftware Sandra 2004
Page 23: Conclusion

A Historical Processor Overview

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