New Conroe-L

[Donnie27]

Edited and reposted from Xtremesystems.org.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060921-7801.html

Originally Posted by ARS
DT also reveals that Conroe-L will be sold under the venerable Pentium and Celeron brand names. The Pentium-branded parts, which will be labeled with the E1000 sequence, will all have an 800MHz FSB and 1MB of L2 cache. The speed ratings are as follows: E1020 at 1.40GHz, E1040 at 1.60GHz, and E1060 at 1.80GHz.

So the Pentium 1000 and Celeron 400 series or the Pentium and Celeron Names aren't dead yet.

http://digitimes.com/mobos/a20060919PR207.html

Originally Posted by DT
The Pentium E1000 series will initially come in three models–E1060, E1040 and E1020–with respective core speed of 1.8GHz, 1.6GHz and 1.4GHz, indicated the makers. Specifications for the Celeron 400 have not been released, but the series will feature 512KB L2 cache and a 533MHz FSB, the makers added.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=121617

So what he tested was in fact the New Celeron 4xx and NOT a true Conroe-L that "desperately" needs its cache.

I just posted this so folks on this forum wouldn't be confused the same way some of these guys were.

 

[chrisf6969]

Even with only 512Kb of cache it was performing like a 4Ghz Pentium 4 (at least according to the SuperPi results).

So I could see the 1Mb "new Pentium" performing very well.

 

[Donnie27]

Even with only 512Kb of cache it was performing like a 4Ghz Pentium 4 (at least according to the SuperPi results).

So I could see the 1Mb "new Pentium" performing very well.

My thoughts exactly. These are meant for the $40 to $125 market and they'll be strong there. That includes Celeron, Pentium and E4300. Also slower E4000's as well. Or so I've heard.