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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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EXAM TIP Typically, the CompTIA A+ exams expect you to know that

L1 cache will be the smallest and fastest cache; L2 will be bigger and slower

than L1; and L3 will be the biggest and slowest cache. (This is not

completely true anymore, with L1 and L2 running the same speed in many

CPUs, but it is how it will appear on the exams.)

Multithreading At the peak of the single-CPU 32-bit computing days, Intel

released a CPU called the Pentium 4 that took parallelism to the next step

with Hyper-Threading. Hyper-Threading enabled the Pentium 4 to run

multiple threads at the same time, what’s generically called simultaneous

multithreading, effectively turning the CPU into two CPUs on one chip—

with a catch.

Figure 3-30 shows the Task Manager in an ancient Windows XP computer

on a system running a Hyper-Threaded Pentium 4. Note how the CPU box is

broken into two groups—Windows thinks this one CPU is two CPUs.

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