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Tim S · 18th Jul 2007, 09:46

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/07...ng_e2140_cpu/1

Intel is to keep their lowest Core 2 CPU, the E2140 a little longer and further drop the price! Bargain of the year? Quite possibly.

The_Pope · 18th Jul 2007, 10:00

Cheap as Chips! *bah-dum-tish*

Do Celeron's still exist then, or is E2xxx just a fancy way to hide the budget-CPU branding?

Tim S · 18th Jul 2007, 10:03

it's the latter, pretty much.

lamboman · 18th Jul 2007, 10:04

Rumors have it that the Celeron will exist in the future. But it doesn't really make sense. There is no way for them to fit in but as a single core processor. I thought that E2160 was already existent? Overclockers and everyone else is selling them.

DougEdey · 18th Jul 2007, 10:05

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Originally Posted by The_Pope

Cheap as Chips! *bah-dum-tish*

You are now a bright orange weird person!

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Originally Posted by The_Pope

Do Celeron's still exist then, or is E2xxx just a fancy way to hide the budget-CPU branding?

I think the fancing rebranding. Celeron was always associated with crap ("Celery is full of water and takes more effort to eat then you get back, just like a Celeron")

DXR_13KE · 18th Jul 2007, 11:57

interesting.... and nicely cheap.

ARM · 18th Jul 2007, 16:04

Hi all,
I'm confused when it comes to the E2xxx series CPU from Intel.
Many considers it a cheaper / cut down version of the Core 2 Duo processor, which I too though of initially.
But when I went to the Intel website, it is listed under 'Intel Pentium Dual Core', similar to the D series of CPU.
So is the E2xxx really a continuation of the D series, since it shares some similarities (same FSB, but less cache),
or is it really a Core 2 Duo processor ?

ARM

Bindibadgi · 18th Jul 2007, 16:28

As far as I know it's Core 2 based. To be honest, I've got to phone up Intel and get one in.

Tim S · 18th Jul 2007, 17:21

It's definitely based on the Core microarchitecture.

proxess · 18th Jul 2007, 17:36

It kills what i've got, and its so cheap. I'll take one of these into consideration.

BUFF · 18th Jul 2007, 22:22

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Originally Posted by The_Pope

Do Celeron's still exist then,

Indeed they do - only last month the Celeron 4 series was launched.

Gravemind123 · 18th Jul 2007, 22:46

The Celeron 4 series is all Conroe-L based, so they are single-core Core 2 based CPUs with 512kb of L2 cache and from what I've read they overclock like crazy for really cheap CPUs.

DXR_13KE · 19th Jul 2007, 00:05

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Originally Posted by Gravemind123

The Celeron 4 series is all Conroe-L based, so they are single-core Core 2 based CPUs with 512kb of L2 cache and from what I've read they overclock like crazy for really cheap CPUs.

any price on those?

BUFF · 19th Jul 2007, 00:14

currently £30-40 depending upon model

MiNiMaL_FuSS · 19th Jul 2007, 11:13

my E2160 is at 3.4ghz straight out of the box.

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