Intel Core 2 Duo Review
Without a doubt, Core 2 Duo or “Conroe” as it is code-named has been one of the most anticipated product launches in the hardware community for quite some time. Everybody has been waiting to see if Intel can claim back the performance crown and push under the rug the disappointment that was the NetBurst architecture.
Dual Core Processor Vs I5
The string of Pentium 4/NetBurst products that Intel released had so many faults that I won’t embarrass Intel by listing them. Put simply, NetBurst never reached the potential Intel believed it was capable of. However, financially it did very well as Intel is incredibly good at marketing, while AMD seems happy to sit by as the underdog expecting PC enthusiasts to do all its advertising for it. On a number of occasions I’ve had the opportunity to play with Pentium M on desktop motherboards and it has been the closest experience yet to re-creating my Mendocino Celeron A overclocking days. Revit 2014 keygen. So naturally, I have been looking to Conroe with anticipation.
Core 2 Duo Processor Comparison
Conroe is nothing like any previous Pentium 4 products. In fact, it’s based on the mobile Core Duo design which is in itself based on Pentium M, which is based on Pentium 3 architecture. So Intel has actually done a bit of a U-turn. Compared to Pentium 4, Core Duo (not to be confused with Core 2 Duo) offers low power consumption, low waste heat and high performance per clock. This is almost an exact opposite to the Pentium 4 which used so much power that the ATX specification had to be modified to add more 12V rails, and produced so much heat that they often throttled and made reaching 4GHz almost impossible. Not only this, but clock for clock performance wasn’t stellar – hence the need for higher clock speeds in the first place.