Intel E6300 - Conroe or Allendale?

[stuppy]

Hi,

I am confused about Intels E6300 CPU. I bought one of these just before christmas - not from OCUK, but checking the OCUK shop, the wording is exactly the same as where I bought it from.

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM

Now, I always thought that CPU I bought was code named Conroe. After reading this :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2#Allendale

I am confused. The CPU sold on OCUK and the place that I got mine from state that these are Allendale cores, but that Wiki suggests otherwise.

According to the wiki, Conroe's have 4MB of L2 Cache. Allendales have the same physical 4MB but half of it is disabled. True Allendale chips have only 2MB physical L2 Cache.

So does this mean that the description/advertisment of these chips is wrong on both OCUK and the site I got it?

 

[robg1701]

Yes. Current E6300 and E6400's are conroes with 2MB of cache disabled and so really should be called conroes. The new stepping 6300 and 6400 2MB models will be true allendales. Only for Intel to then introduce 6320 and 6420 models with 4MB cache to replace them...go figure ;p

 

[stuppy]

So the listings on OCUK and posibly lots of other retailers are incorrect?

 

[Trox]

I think their just naming the E6300 and E6400 which only 2mb cache the allandale, so it doesnt get mixed up with the 4mb cache conroes, E6600 and the rest

 

[steve258]

Yes E6300 / 6400 are half L2 disabled conroes but at the end of the day they still only have 2Mb so they are allendales.

 

[Jabbs]

Intel have already stated that they are in fact Conroes the 6xxx family is stated as conroes the 4xxx family is stated as allendales, these chips were not made with 2 meg cache like the proper allendales due out soon with 800fsb, they had 2 meg laser cut and apart from encoding there is very little difference between a 6300/[email protected] and a 6600.

If Nvidia release a standard 8800 with half the ram would we say no these are not 8800 series as they have reduced ram/core speeds.

On the other hand i don't know why company's sell them as Allendale still, when i run cpuz it clearly says Conroe for my 6300 so who knows, i must admit though the 4300 has me rather tempted due to its x9 multi meaning not so much overclocking.