Intel Core2 Processors - Everything you need to know to buy one

[gayannr]

Wonder anyone in EK has an E8xxx

 

[Anusha]

Machan so Core 2 Duo is a brand name of a Dual Core Processor is it???
And please tell more about Centrino Duo...

So far 3 dual core processors from Intel for the desktop:
1. Pentium D (and some Pentium EE's, based on )
2. Core 2 Duo (Core Micro-architecture; Conroe and Allendale codenames; newer Penryns are yet to come to SL I think)
3. Pentium DualCore (which is a 1MB Allendale; but Core Micro-architecture nevertheless)

Centrino Duo is the successor to Merom (Core 2 Duo: mobile) with higher FSB (800 vs 667) and with ability to overclock itself automatically up to 10 or 20% (can't remember the exact value) when the work load is high.

 

[fallenzeraphine]

You missed the most important thing, Zeraphine

THE PRICES

couldnt be botherd, just go to the Unity plaza and check out for ur selves guys looooool,

 

[Anusha]

Oh ya.....4got....So is it ok if i tell that centrino duo is a technology which is built in to Intel CPUs?

Centrino Duo is the CPU; Santa Rosa is the platform

 

[chanster]

Centrino Duo is the CPU; Santa Rosa is the platform

Thats what i mentioned.......but gayannr said its not a processor

 

[gayannr]

Oh ya.....4got....So is it ok if i tell that centrino duo is a technology which is built in to Intel CPUs?

Again it's not true AFAIK.hehee
its the same Intel mobile CPU which u'll find in those non-Centrino Lappies,
Intel mobile CPU+ Intel Wireless N/W adaptor + Intel Chipset(N/B +S/B) = Centrino platform
if one of the above components is missing then it is a non-Centrino

 

[Anusha]

Thats what i mentioned.......but gayannr said its not a processor

Quoted the wrong post; sorry.

 

[fallenzeraphine]

Dual Core = it has two Processing Cores/ imagine two processors now imagine two of the smacked togeather to form a single processor of the same size thats a dual core, same goes for quad core

yes and as Chanster and Anusha says, Centrino is a mobile processor wich i do not focus on the article cuz its abt desktop CPU's

 

[Anusha]

Again it's not true AFAIK.hehee
its the same Intel mobile CPU which u'll find in those non-Centrino Lappies,
Intel mobile CPU+ Intel Wireless N/W adaptor + Intel Chipset(N/B +S/B) = Centrino platform
if one of the above components is missing then it is a non-Centrino

You seem confused

It is the same Merom core; but they made a new version especially for the Santa Rosa platform.

Edit: damn this naming is confusing...I'm confused too. Let's call them by model name

 

[gayannr]

Centrino Duo is the CPU; Santa Rosa is the platform

Centrino Duo is the Platform,Santa Rosa is the Code name of the Platform

 

[Anusha]

Centrino Duo is the Platform,Santa Rosa is the Code name of the Platform

There is a Centrino Duo in the Napa platform too. So, yes it is not the CPU

I give up!

You people are better off buying a VIA C7 processor!

 

[gayannr]

You seem confused

It is the same Merom core; but they made a new version especially for the Santa Rosa platform.

Edit: damn this naming is confusing...I'm confused too. Let's call them by model name

Grabbed from http://www.intel.com/products/centrino/centrino/index.htm

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/centrino-duo.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/centrino-duo_2.html

hehee

 

[Anusha]

Conclusion:
Centrino Duo "whatever" uses a Core 2 Duo processor

 

[fallenzeraphine]

There is a Centrino Duo in the Napa platform too. So, yes it is not the CPU

I give up!

You people are better off buying a VIA C7 processor!

i told yah VIA is looking up

 

[Anusha]

i told yah VIA is looking up

Less products they have; less confused we get

 

[fallenzeraphine]

i luv VIA, my first PC had a VIA Apollo chipset loool, and my first AMD Athlon 64 machine had a VIA k8T800 chipset

 

[Heshanck93]

thnx dude

 

[zCexVe]

VIA rocked in the AMD market since nobody was there to made a good chipset in the era of 1999~2003.nVidia stepped in,SIS broke down,ALi went in to nVIDIA ,VIA went into ITX whole hell of a lot happened :S

 

[fallenzeraphine]

VIA rocked in the AMD market since nobody was there to made a good chipset in the era of 1999~2003.nVidia stepped in,SIS broke down,ALi went in to nVIDIA ,VIA went into ITX whole hell of a lot happened :S

yeah man VIA is non existent on Desktop PC market nowdays :s

 

[zCexVe]

Thats not actually true.THey got P900M