CPU-Z Reports e4300 as a Conroe?

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I'm using CPU-Z 1.39 on my machine, and it reports my Intel e4300 as a Conroe processor. I could be a moron, but aren't e4300s supposed to be Allendales? I wondered if maybe this meant that my "Allendale" is actually an ex-Conroe with 2mb of the cache disabled? If anyone has any info about this, I'd appreciate it a whole lot.

Take it easy!
 
Maybe they rebadged it to save money, or 2Mb of the cache failed testing. Dunno myself. Interesting.
 
I got the same thing with 1.39 displaying Conroe when CoreTemp display Allendale. Might be a bug.
 
Quote from the Tech Report:

"You'll find plenty of sources that will tell you the code name for these 2MB Core 2 Duo processors is "Allendale," but Intel says otherwise. These CPUs are still code-named "Conroe," which makes sense since they're the same physical chips with half of their L2 cache disabled. Intel may well be cooking up a chip code-named Allendale with 2MB of L2 cache natively, but this is not that chip"
 
Intel doesn't make it easy for an individual to determine whether their CPU is a Conroe or an Allendale which makes it really difficult for programmers to figure out. Try doing your own research at the Intel site and you'll see what I mean.

Now Intel has released a new revision of the E6300 chip which shares the same L2 revision code as the E4300 Allendale. Most people finally agree that the original E6300 revision B2 is a Conroe with half the cache disabled but are the new E6300 CPUs being built on the Conroe core or on the new Allendale 2MB core?

Does any of this matter? Not really. Overclock them all to their full potential and have fun. :)

Head here to learn more about the new codes and steppings so you can figure out what you got.
http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ProcFam=2558&sSpec=&OrdCode=
 
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