Asus P4 533 manual Central Processing Unit CPU

3.4 Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The motherboard comes with a surface mount 478-pin Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket. This socket is specifically designed for the Intel® Pentium® 4 478/Northwood Processor.

The Intel Pentium 4 Processor in the 478-pin package uses the Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array 2 (FC-PGA2) package technology, and includes the Intel® NetBurst™ micro-architecture. The Intel NetBurst micro-architecture features the hyper-pipelined technology, rapid execution engine, 533/400MHz system bus, and execution trace cache. Together, these attributes improve system performance by allowing higher processor frequencies, faster execution of integer instructions, and a data transfer rate of 4.3GB/s and 3.2GB/s.

P4SC-E

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P4SC-E Socket 478

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Refer to sections “2.3 Install a CPU” and “2.4 Install the CPU heatsink and fan” for instructions on installing the Intel Pentium 4 CPU and the heatsink/fan assembly.

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