Duo vs Dual

[Helium_Junkie]

I am having a little trouble understanding some of these recent CPU's.
The last time I was even close to understanding was back with the ol Barton's.

So whats a "Core Duo" and whats a Dual Core?
Why is the E6300 so darned popular?
Performance vs Price, are Pentium outdoing AMD?

I've tried searching for these questions, but found no decent answers (i.e. more than "Yeah that chips best." ... "why?" ... "It just is" )

 

[VeNT]

I am having a little trouble understanding some of these recent CPU's.
The last time I was even close to understanding was back with the ol Barton's.

me too dude, loved my barton 2500+

So whats a "Core Duo" and whats a Dual Core?

Core 2 Duo like the E6300, 6400, 6600, etc are dual core. but its linked differently from the AMD type dual core.

Why is the E6300 so darned popular?

150% overclocks on air do that to a chip.

Performance vs Price, are Pentium outdoing AMD?

depends who you ask, at the perfromance end yes, even a 6300 will clock to speeds that put the FX chips to shame
but AMD are selling some bitching cheap chips recently at the lower end of the market.

I've tried searching for these questions, but found no decent answers (i.e. more than "Yeah that chips best." ... "why?" ... "It just is" )

theres some threads around about the performance you get from these chips, but realy you have to see for yourself!

 

[Socaddict]

The core 2 duos are dual core, they are also native dual core designs, built fromt he ground up to be dual core unlike the earlier pentium Ds. Tha Athlon X2s were also native dual cores.

They have two cores to a chip that can interact with each other via the cip itself rather than having to communicate via the chipset.

The A64 architecture was more efficient, clock for clock, than the Netburst architecture, and the same applies now comparing the core 2 duo to the A64. More details can be found here.

As for the E6300 being so popular, well, it offers some of the best overclocking potential, people have them running 3.0GHz or more on stock volts, and from about 2.6GHz upwards, it beats the FX-62 at stock. Having a £120 CPU that beats a £700 CPU, well, which would you choose?

If you need any more help, feel free to ask.

 

[Virdi]

I am having a little trouble understanding some of these recent CPU's.
The last time I was even close to understanding was back with the ol Barton's.

So whats a "Core Duo" and whats a Dual Core?
Why is the E6300 so darned popular?
Performance vs Price, are Pentium outdoing AMD?

I've tried searching for these questions, but found no decent answers (i.e. more than "Yeah that chips best." ... "why?" ... "It just is" )

That is the correct Answer - Core 2 Duo are the best!

 

[NathanE]

To clarify: dual core is just an abstract technology of having two distinct microprocessor cores on the same silicon die. Both the A64 and Core 2 Duo's are implementations of that technology.

Pentium D "Smithfield" 800-series were not a proper dual core implementation, they were actually just a multi-chip package with two dies wired together.

Pentium D "Presler" 900-series is proper dual core.

 

[Helium_Junkie]

Wonderful stuff, thank you all

 

[Corasik]

Performance vs Price, are Pentium outdoing AMD?

Absolutely Not, Pentium is poor price V performance.

Pentium is old news, history, consigned to the scrap heap. Intel are in the process of dropping the old Pentium series, and the new processor line is 'Core', and we're already on the second generation of Core, hence Core 2 Duo. The first series Core '1' Duo's were 32bit laptop processors.

If you meant Intel V AMD rather than Pentium V AMD, then yes Intel have price and performance and overclocking on their side at the moment.

RIP Pentium.