Although chips including Intel's Pentium 4 series could be overclocked ... The AMD FX-4170 was the first consumer desktop CPU to reach 4 GHz out of the box without any need for overclocking.
Intel's top Pentium chip, introduced in late 2000. The successor to the Pentium III, the Pentium 4 features the NetBurst micro-architecture (see NetBurst). All Pentium 4 chips are single core ...
The brains of the PC is a central processing unit (CPU) made by Intel or AMD ... into the world's largest desktop computer standard. Subsequent 32-bit 386, 486 and Pentium CPUs also included ...