P4 auf was achten?

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"Intel Pentium 4 2.8 & 2.66Ghz (Northwood B) CPUs were released on August 25th. These processors introduce stepping 7 of the Northwood core (previous stepping was 4), which introduces an increase in the L1 Instruction cache's Translation Look Aside Buffer (TLB) from 64 to 128 entries. The instruction TLB is a cache of the Page Table, most of which resides in main system memory, who's entries are used to convert from Virtual to Physical memory addresses. The effect of the TLB size increase is to improve memory access latency, and as such offers slight performance increases for memory bandwidth intensive applications or those that use large datasets. Most applications perform no more than 1% faster, but some scientific applications can improve by up to 5% and games by up to 2%"