Ever since I decided to retire my first-ever PC — an HP pre-built with an Intel Pentium III — I needed my parents to fund ...

Ken Shirriff, noted reverse engineer and processor historian, has identified the specific transistors, incorrectly laid, which caused the original Pentium to be recalled at a cost of $475 million.

Old-style x86 instructions aren't that easy to pipeline, but the pipeline never touches them: by the time they get there, they've been translated into the Pentium 4's internal instruction format.

What is the worst thing that could happen if I plug in a Pentium MMX 200MHz in to a Socket 7 that is holding a Pentium 133MHz non MMX? I can't find the FRU on the Mobo and havent any luck cross ...

It’s called the 86Duino and stuffs an old Pentium II-class machine capable of running DOS, Windows, and Linux into the space of an Arduino, The 86Duino Zero features, of course, an x86 ...

Continuing to use an old processor for business machines can save money, as long as it doesn't slow you down. First released in 2000, the Pentium 4 family of Intel central processing unit chips ...

Great old chip. That chip 233 @66x3.5 overclocks like a champ (for its day). It'll do 262 @75x3.5 on -any- mobo and 290 @83x3.5 if the ram and cards are up to it.

Currently, the fastest Pentium III operates at 1.13 GHz and sells for $990. The company's cheapest Celeron, by contrast, sells for less than $100. Intel hasn't yet announced pricing for the Pentium 4.

Old hardware tends to get less support as the years go by, from both manufacturers and the open-source community alike. And ...

Windows 7 has apparently reached the end of the road for Pentium III CPUs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The reason for ...

Available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions with and without Hyper-Threading, the Pentium 4 was introduced at the end of 2000 with 1.4 and 1.5 GHz clock rates. Speed later reached 3.8 GHz.

Linux drops support for 486 and early Pentium processors ... Still, it's always sad to wave goodbye to an old processor. I recall when the 33MHz 486DX was the fastest chip around.