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- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Overclockers, quite frankly. The budget chips usually have a bunch of on-chip technologies disabled, which allows them to crank up the clockrate without worrying about *name of complex technology* crapping out on them. Back when on-chip caches were brand new, and the Celeron (a cacheless version of the Pentium II) was released, it became an instant overclocking wonder; the cache on the Pentium II was still flaky and it generated a huge amount of heat once you started overclocking. But, with an offchip cache, the Celeron's were able to overclock to literally 100% of their original shipping clockrate.
In other words, you can buy a chip like this for a $100, and still receive the same performance as if you had bought, for example, a $200 chip. This frees up money for Ricer-mods and watercooling. - wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I just can't get excited about "value sector" cpu news.
No wood, no digg :( - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Conroe-L still has two cores, they're just clocked much lower and use much less in the way of on-chip technology. Essentially, Conroe-L is the "Celeron" to Conroe.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3$100 processors still move a lot more in Dell systems than $180 processors (which would add ~$100 to the bottom line of the machine).
Quite frankly, the cheaper they make the chips, the cheaper Dell will ship them. It doesn't necessarily mean that they'll make a huge amount of money off these chips, but they're still making more money than they would have if they would have recycled them instead of releasing them. - boblmartens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The farther we move from Pentium 4 ... the better. Keep on moving Core 2 Duo parts the better. This would be a great chip for a small business or college for general word processing, internet surfing, and solitaire playing.
- TyroPyro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Bad Intel... no more stepping backward with single core processors!
- bluemist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2What value processor? Isn't the Core 2 already cheap enough? The cheapest being around 180$?
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Plus some of the Celeron D (not for me personally) and Pentium Ds are just great deals, even if they're not Core 2 Duos.
- ronaldst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Intel's planning to put AMD outta business I see.
- kazuhima, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1sounds like "cornroll"
- JewFro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Thats what I was thinking. Marked Lame. Who cares about what might happen to the ***** processors that intel can sell in $299 Dells.
- SamL, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Yes, but what are their Control-L plans?
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