The Pentium® II Processor 2-1
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The Pentium
®
II Processor
This chapter consists of the following sections:
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About the Pentium II Processor
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Installing the Hardware for the Pentium II Processor
About the Pentium II Processor
The Pentium II processor and the Celeron™ processor are the latest
additions to the P6 processor family. They combine the architectural
advances in the Pentium Pro processor with the instruction set
extensions of MMX technology. They are fully compatible with the
huge base of Intel architecture-based PC software.
In addition, the Pentium II processor delivers new levels of
performance for advanced media and communications software
including powerful, realistic graphics and imaging capabilities, video
conferencing, and the ability to run full-screen, full-motion video. The
combination of these advanced features makes the Pentium II
processor the ideal choice for executing modern 32-bit CPU-intensive
and multimedia-enhanced application work loads using advanced
32-bit operating systems.
The Pentium II processor has a separate 32 KB, on-chip, non-blocking
Level 1 cache which runs at the same speed as the processor. It also
has a 512 KB or 256 KB onboard Level 2 non-blocking cache which
runs at half the speed of the processor.