Intel 850
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The Intel 850 chipset was the first chipset available for the Pentium 4
Pentium 4
Pentium 4 was a line of single-core desktop and laptop central processing units , introduced by Intel on November 20, 2000 and shipped through August 8, 2008. They had a 7th-generation x86 microarchitecture, called NetBurst, which was the company's first all-new design since the introduction of the...

 processor, and was simultaneously released in November 2000. It consists of a 82850 memory controller hub and a 82801BA I/O controller hub
I/O Controller Hub
I/O Controller Hub , also known as Intel 82801, is an Intel southbridge on motherboards with Intel chipsets . As with any other southbridge, the ICH is used to connect and control peripheral devices.- ICH :...

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This chipset will outperform the AMD 760 chipset with the 266 MHz FSB.

Features

  • Socket 423
    Socket 423
    Socket 423 is a 423 pin CPU socket used for the first generation of Pentium 4 processors, based on the Willamette core.-Technical specifications:This socket houses any processor designed in the Socket 423 package....

     or Socket 478
    Socket 478
    Socket 478 is a 478-contact CPU socket used for Intel's Pentium 4 and Celeron series CPUs.Socket 478 was launched with the Northwood core to compete with AMD's 462-pin Socket A and their Athlon XP processors. Socket 478 was intended to be the replacement for Socket 423, a Willamette-based...

     CPU compatible with 400 MHz FSB
  • Supports P4 CPUs at 1.3 GHz or Faster
  • Four PC800 RDRAM
    RDRAM
    Direct Rambus DRAM or DRDRAM is a type of synchronous dynamic RAM. RDRAM was developed by Rambus inc., in the mid-1990s as a replacement for then-prevalent DIMM SDRAM memory architecture....

     slots compatible with ECC
  • AGP 4X slot
  • DirectX 8 Compatible
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