intel pentium 4

a f-cking room heater that all of the schools that i’ve been to still use in 2017. the pentium 4 was based on the netburst microarchetecture which was originally released in the year 2000 and was produced from 2000 to 2008 originally marketed as a good platform for semi-power users, such as gamers and content creators. the pentium 4 line of desktop and notebook processors is renowned for it’s ability to heat up a cold room in a matter of minutes (especially the pentium d) due to its generally high heat output of up to 130 watts. features such as hyperthreading have were introduced in late 2001 with the northwood series of netburst based intel processors helped with mult-threaded applications. intel was challenged by the release of the amd athlon 64 in 2003 which had was the first 64 bit desktop processor.

there was a dual core variant of the pentium 4 known as the pentium d. it was an even better roomheater and was effectively 2 pentium 4 cpus stuck together with spit and elmer’s glue, described perfectly by gaminghd on his “top 7 worst cpus ever made” video (it was number 4 on the list.
person 1:”d-mn, this intel pentium 4 is a really good roomheater.”
person 2:”no sh-t.”