Processor / Chipset overview

The table below shows the Intel Pentium 4 compared to the Intel Pentium III Cu and the AMD Athlon Thunderbird.

From the table you can see some of the major differences between the Intel Pentium 4 and its other competitors, but does this new technology stand up to expectations? First lets go through the new features of the Intel Pentium 4 and explain to you just what each of them is and what each of them does.