Intel CPU naming methods

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Benny Blanco

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(First of all, I AM an AMD fanboy, but honestly not looking to start a flame war!)

I've been looking for a 775 setup just to play around with and I saw that there's 2 variants of the E6300....

One is 1.86GHz (conroe, Q3 '06)
The other, 2.8Ghz (wolfdale, Q2 '09)

Can someone explain that? Because it doesn't make sense to me, unless someone in marketing forgot/didn't know that they already used "E6300" already... or if the two chips are identical in performance.
 
Core 2 Duo E6300 (Conroe)
Pentium Dual Core E6300 (Wolfdale)

There might be a subtle different there. :p Take your time.
 
pxc said:
There might be a subtle different there. :p Take your time.
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Thank you for your patience!

So, since I don't have a Core2 E6300 and a Wolfdale E6300 to bench against eachother, I guess I have to bench according to the length of letters and the time it takes me to decipher the name of each CPU, in which case, CORE2/CONROE WINS :D
 
pxc said:
:p I'm pretty sure wolfdale is much faster.
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Really? Please be serious (LOL), because as you can see, me and TheSpoon are obviously on the wrong track here (LOL AGAIN). I honestly would think that by both being named E6300, they'd be roughly equal in performance, despite the 1ghz difference in speed.
 
It should be pretty obvious that the 3 year newer, 1 Ghz faster, chip is going to be faster. I agree with you that they shouldn't share the same number though.
 
Benny Blanco said:
Really? Please be serious (LOL), because as you can see, me and TheSpoon are obviously on the wrong track here (LOL AGAIN). I honestly would think that by both being named E6300, they'd be roughly equal in performance, despite the 1ghz difference in speed.
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I wasn't trying to play around.

C2D E6300: 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache
PDC E6300: 2.8GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache

The Pentium E6300 is 1GHz faster and uses the slightly faster per clock Wolfdale core, the same one as later Core 2 Duo chips, but with 1/2 the cache disabled. It's really no competition between the two. Make sure the LGA 775 board supports 45nm processors if you get the Pentium E6300.
 
I never understood why they recycled the same name for a significantly different chip but upon further research I now know but still don't completely understand other than it must be a marketing decision.

The original E6300 was a "Core 2 Duo" E6300(65nm, 2.13GHz, 1066FSB) and the later one a "Pentium" E6300 (45nm, 2.8GHz, 1066FSB). So the difference is the early one is a "Core 2 Duo" and the later one a "Pentium". This link details the exact differences.

I guess they wanted to keep the Pentium brand alive while also giving people options for 775 boards capable of running 45nm process chips. I guess. :p
 
YELL said:
I never understood why they recycled the same name for a significantly different chip but upon further research I now know but still don't completely understand other than it must be a marketing decision.

The original E6300 was a "Core 2 Duo" E6300(65nm, 2.13GHz, 1066FSB) and the later one a "Pentium" E6300 (45nm, 2.8GHz, 1066FSB). So the difference is the early one is a "Core 2 Duo" and the later one a "Pentium". This link details the exact differences.

I guess they wanted to keep the Pentium brand alive while also giving people options for 775 boards capable of running 45nm process chips. I guess. :p
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Not 2.13GHz, but 1.86GHz.

Get the 2.8GHz e6300 if you can. Much better than the Core 2 Duo.
 
450 said:
Not 2.13GHz, but 1.86GHz.

Get the 2.8GHz e6300 if you can. Much better than the Core 2 Duo.
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Nitpicker!:D Yeah, I was thinking of the Core 2 Duo E6400.

And yes, the 2.8GHz E6300 is way faster than the 1.86GHz version, duh. :cool:
 
backthen Intel was bombarding every possible price segment with their Dual core 775 model numbers ranging from E1200~E8600.
iirc they had a Pentium E6600 too...which felt weird as the original E6600 was legendary stuff
 
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