The Intel Pentium 997 technical specifications and performance benchmarks are detailed on this page. The release date is Q3/2012. Intel Pentium 997 supports the installation of BGA 1023 socket on the motherboard. The number of cores is 2 with the base clock speed of 1.60 GHz. Maximum capacity and type of RAM supported are DDR3-1066DDR3-1333. TDP is 17 W.