dailytech.com — Intel?s latest roadmap reveals the Conroe-L processors will arrive in 2007. The Pentium E1000 series will arrive in Q2?07 with models E1060, E1040 and E1020 as previously reported. These new Pentium?s will target the value sector and coexist with Intel?s Pentium 4 HT models 651, 641 and 631 for a quarter.
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Closed AccountOct 11, 2006
What value processor? Isn't the Core 2 already cheap enough? The cheapest being around 180$?
geminitojanusOct 11, 2006
Conroe-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.
geminitojanusOct 11, 2006
Overclockers, 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.
boblmartensOct 11, 2006
The 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.
ronaldstOct 11, 2006
Intel's planning to put AMD outta business I see.
Closed AccountOct 11, 2006
sounds like "cornroll"