Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 & E6300

[Shadow Conception]

Considering that the E6500 and E6600 (and X6800) both have twice the cache of the lower end models, the E6300 and E6400, couldn't they be counted as the Celerons of Core 2 Duo? I'm saying that, you can probably draw a direct parallel between E6300-6400 and previous generation Celeron D processors. After all, they have lower clock speeds, half the cache, and are basically the budget line of Core 2 Duo processors. Anyone with me on this "idea"?

 

[LW07]

Originally posted by: Shadow Conception
Considering that the E6500 and E6600 (and X6800) both have twice the cache of the lower end models, the E6300 and E6400, couldn't they be counted as the Celerons of Core 2 Duo? I'm saying that, you can probably draw a direct parallel between E6300-6400 and previous generation Celeron D processors. After all, they have lower clock speeds, half the cache, and are basically the budget line of Core 2 Duo processors. Anyone with me on this "idea"?

Intel's going to be coming out with a single core E4200, and the E6300 is around the X2 4600+-5000+ in performance, so no, the E6300 and E6400 are not the celeron type CPUs.

The single core E4200 is the "celeron".

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=8

 

[bobdelt]

Well the extra cache only improves performance by 0 - 10% depending on the applicatoin (clock for clock). I wouldn't put these in the celeron category because these are still great chips. I'm thinking of getting the 6400 and overclocking it if it will hit over 3+ghz. These chips also run the same fsb and have dual cores. I dont think we will have dual core cellys for a while.


The celeron line will probably die with Pentium. The new thing will probably be Core 2 Solo or something for the low end.

 

[DaveSimmons]

By this logic half of the AMD X2 models are Celerons.

In fact soon all of them will be X2-Celerons since AMD is dropping the 1MB cache models to get more chips out of each wafer.

So no, this is a really stupid idea 🙂

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
By this logic half of the AMD X2 models are Celerons.

In fact soon all of them will be X2-Celerons since AMD is dropping the 1MB cache models to get more chips out of each wafer.

So no, this is a really stupid idea 🙂

:thumbsup:

 

[EagleEye]

lol

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: bobdelt
Well the extra cache only improves performance by 0 - 10% depending on the applicatoin (clock for clock). I wouldn't put these in the celeron category because these are still great chips. I'm thinking of getting the 6400 and overclocking it if it will hit over 3+ghz. These chips also run the same fsb and have dual cores. I dont think we will have dual core cellys for a while.


The celeron line will probably die with Pentium. The new thing will probably be Core 2 Solo or something for the low end.

yes but to a hardcore gamer 10% means everything!

 

[bobdelt]

that 10% was in divx. Games werent nearly that high, 3-5% if I remember correctly.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: bobdelt
that 10% was in divx. Games werent nearly that high, 3-5% if I remember correctly.

even the those figueres are based upon who you a reading..
I have not seen 2 reviews even closely bearing almost the same info...

 

[bobdelt]

The two I saw comparing the different amounts of cache, one had a gain of 9% for divx, one at 10%. It mostly with the games when things get fishy.