The arrival of Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz CPUs with Hyper-Threading technology support brought about significant changes in the mainboard market. Now all the mainboards that support the new CPUs and the upcoming solutions from Intel Pentium 4 family will have to possess certain new features. Among them - Hyper-Threading technology support and compliance with the new FMB2 guidelines that specify the higher power consumption and heat dissipation of Socket478 processors.
So, the new generation mainboards (that is, the ones that can faultlessly support 3GHz+ CPUs) must be based on a Hyper-Threading chipset, have an appropriate BIOS version, and allow using CPUs with up to 82W thermal power and 70A maximum current drain.
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