Intel provided PC buyers with some new options on Monday, as double data rate memory quietly made its debut alongside the Pentium 4. Dell Computer, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and other PC makers have started to sell Pentium 4 PCs containing DDR SDRAM, a faster version of standard memory, via their Web sites. The combo is made possible through a new version of Intel's 845 chipset. The chipset and the PCs won't be officially released until January, but Intel has allowed manufacturers to market them early. The release will coincide with new, high-performance versions of the Pentium 4.
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