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Allendale or Conroe?

They are Core CPUs its just they have a 1mb L2 cache and Intel just gives em a different name.
 
A while back, there was a lot of people starting some kind of childish ****-off where they had Conroe cores and the lesser mortals had Allendale??? - God knows WTF was going on there, but at the time, it was that Conroes had a 4MB Cache and Allendales had 2MB, and so naturally, *** conroe was a superior CPU... They said?

Now, on looking into this, I find that some allendales had 4MB as well as 2MB and some conroes had 2MB as well as 4MB, so WTF?

Now of course, some have 1MB EH?

So, what does it really matter?

I know the E2180 is only 10x200 so with such a low FSB it really needs to be clocked to get serious, but it clocks like a peach.
 
KelticDaz said:
Oh god no, tell me it aint so!

Thats it, I'm gonna take that goddamn alan o' dale chip thats runs at 3.2 gig, fantastic at games, runs cool as a cucumber, cost me 52 quid, outta me system and replace it with...ermmm...ahhh...errr...


:D
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Hehe

:D
 
some of the lower end chips are allendale, nd some which are labelled Allendale are just conroe with some cache disabled.

All of the E6xx series are conroe, and the E4xx are Allendale. Don't know about E2xx series though.

basically Allendale only has 2mb cache although in the e2xx case 1mb if it is disabled.

and Conroe is up to 4mb cache but sometime 2mb of it is disabled effectively making it a conroe, but not.
 
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yantorsen said:
some of the lower end chips are allendale, nd some which are labelled Allendale are just conroe with some cache disabled.

All of the E6xx series are conroe, and the E4xx are Allendale. Don't know about E2xx series though.

basically Allendale only has 2mb cache although in the e2xx case 1mb if it is disabled.

and Conroe is up to 4mb cache but sometime 2mb of it is disabled effectively making it a conroe, but not.
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Exactly, and this means.... WHAT?

WTF makes it any different ?

Its either 2MB and that makes it an allendale, or its a 4MB cache with 2MB of it disabled so thats a conroe??? - EH? - both have then only 2MB of cache!

All E6xx CPUs are conroes?

Yes, the 6300 and 6400 do have the 4MB but disabled 2MB of it... WHY?

Well, because they are crappy chips and failed quality control!

EH? - That does not make me feel too good.

So, the E6300 that I have been running since about July last year, has been a crappy chiup all this time? - Im not happy. LOL

An easier way to decide Conroe v Allendale is simply

E6 = Conroe ( 266FSB )
E4 = Allendale ( 200FSB )

Again, Im prolly wrong, but then, if I am, so are half the websites out there too!
 
FatRakoon said:
*crazy talk*
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No.


They are just filling up the market.

AMD lower their prices... everyone buys AMD CPUs 'cos they are cheap so Intel release CPUs that fill up that price bracket.


Nowt to do with crap CPUs failing quality control!

They are just getting a bigger market share.
 
Crazy Talk? - yeah I know, Im so confused with the CPU market today its just too weird.

Quality control.

Actually, this is true.

All E6x CPUs were supposed to have 4MB Cache.

The 6300s are underclocked 6600s that failed quality control on 2MB of the cache apparently
 
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