Posted by Roger Keays, 9 April 2008, 10:08 AM
Dad just called me because he's replacing his desktop at home and he wanted to know what chip I would choose from "Core 2 Duo" and "Dual Core". Damn, how confusing have the Intel brand names become? It used to just be Pentium is good, Celeron is crap. That was easy.
Anyway, it seems that these two chips are pretty much the same except that the Pentium Dual Core has a smaller cache, no virtualisation (VT) and in most cases, a slightly slower front-side bus. So the main difference is the branding and the price. Hooray.
Here are some links on those CPUs:
http://intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/core2duo.htm
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