FAO Gibbo - Intel E4300 ETA?

[Angilion]

Intel probably have a huge great profit margin on the 4300

Why higher than on the 6300? Sells for the same price, probably costs the same to make, development costs aren't a factor in this context.

 

[xsnv]

Why higher than on the 6300? Sells for the same price, probably costs the same to make, development costs aren't a factor in this context.

They don't cost the same to make. Intel can shave 20% ish off the cost of the 6300 as it's designed natively to use 2mb cache.

Btw what is intel virtualization technology? It's the only difference between the 6000 and 4000 series.

 

[peetee]

its probly nothin to shout or scream about.
Its pretty legitimate for intel to price these the same, as theyr very attractive for people with slower ram, or motherboards that cant hit high FSBs, making them pretty much the only real performance option.

 

[Angilion]

They don't cost the same to make. Intel can shave 20% ish off the cost of the 6300 as it's designed natively to use 2mb cache.

Btw what is intel virtualization technology? It's the only difference between the 6000 and 4000 series.

So the lower 6000 series are made with a 4MB cache and have half of it disabled?

In any case, Intel could have made chips designed natively to use a 2MB cache and sold them as 6300 and 6400. They deliberately specified a lower FSB and higher multiplier to sell as the 4000 series.

Virtualisation technology on a CPU, if my memory serves me right, gives hardware support (and therefore better performance) to running multiple virtual machines. The most obvious use is to be able to switch between different OSes without rebooting. One virtual machine runs, say, Vista and another runs, say, Linux, on the same PC at the same time and you can switch between them with a keypress.

 

[Big.Wayne]

Core 2 Duo E6300 (266x7 - 2MB)
Core 2 Duo E6400 (266x8 - 2MB)
Core 2 Duo E4300 (200x9 - 2MB) - New! Intel® Allendale

Core 2 Duo E6600 (266x 9 - 4MB)
Core 2 Duo E6700 (266x10 - 4MB)

Quarter 2 – April/June 2007

Core 2 Duo E6320 (266x7 - 4MB)
Core 2 Duo E6420 (266x8 - 4MB)

Core 2 Duo E4400 (200x10 - 2MB) - Intel® Allendale
Core 2 Duo E4300 (200x9 - 2MB) <<< - Price Slashed!!!!

Core 2 Duo E6650 - (333x7 - 4MB)
Core 2 Duo E6750 - (333x8 - 4MB)
Core 2 Duo E6850 - (333x9 - 4MB)

 

[Badger_grr]

Are ocuk likely to get oem e4300's? if so then that would be a couple of weeks after the chip is released yes?