[Spartan Erik]

What the heck is the difference between the three? I want to know which processor is essentially the better of the three, in terms of L2 cache and average clock speed

[masterchief3k]

core 2 duo..duh. the slowest C2D is as powerful as athlon 64 x2 5000+.

Centrino is optimized for laptops, it has power scaling, so it will be slow mostly...
Pentium Core duo is essentially the same as centrino's but as powerful as P4 with HT, but instead of logical cores, they are physical.

[Spartan Erik]

Microprocessor: 1.60 GHz Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology featuring Intel® Core ™ 2 Duo processor T5200

So that means that it has a physical Core 2 Duo, but scales down the power usage through Centrino Duo technology?

[Cubeform]

Originally Posted by masterchief3k

core 2 duo..duh. the slowest C2D is as powerful as athlon 64 x2 5000+.

Centrino is optimized for laptops, it has power scaling, so it will be slow mostly...
Pentium Core duo is essentially the same as centrino's but as powerful as P4 with HT, but instead of logical cores, they are physical.

Originally Posted by Spartan Erik

Microprocessor: 1.60 GHz Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology featuring Intel® Core ™ 2 Duo processor T5200

So that means that it has a physical Core 2 Duo, but scales down the power usage through Centrino Duo technology?

Centrino is not a technology at all. It is a fancy name for a laptop that has an Intel processor that scales along with usage (to conserve power/keep it cool), and a special Intel networking card. Nothing more. Essentially, the C2D and the Centrino are the same processor.


By the way, get the Core 2 Duo. And a "Pentium Core Duo" doesn't exist; were you thinking of a Pentium D? (those suck, by the way)

[Spartan Erik]

Pentium Core Duo = Intel Pentium Dual-Core mobile processor**

[masterchief3k]

yeah pentium D = Pentium dual Core yup.

[Micro]

Originally Posted by Cubeform

Centrino is not a technology at all. It is a fancy name for a laptop that has an Intel processor that scales along with usage (to conserve power/keep it cool), and a special Intel networking card. Nothing more. Essentially, the C2D and the Centrino are the same processor.


By the way, get the Core 2 Duo. And a "Pentium Core Duo" doesn't exist; were you thinking of a Pentium D? (those suck, by the way)

Centrino is a name, but you dont have to have an Intel wireless card -- i have a Broadcom wireless card and a Broadcom Network card.

My processor is fine at lots of games, its the hard drive that lets my machine down (5200rpm instead of 7200rpm).

[Dexus]

Centrino Duo has a 2 cores and this cores get much more energy than old Centrino, ofcurse c2d have SpeedStep etc... but this is still 2 physical processors. If you need to work in your notebook on way I will choice a old Centrino. If you need computer to play in home... I prefer AMD 64 X2 i'ts better than C2D, and definitely have much better 64-bit architecture. Intel EM64 has included into c2d in meaby one or two month... it's not enough

[flapietoetoe]

apparently there are a couple of misunderstandings

Centrino is only a platform, Its guarantees that you have a certain kind of hardware in you laptop that is approved by intel, that includes the power scaling processors by intel.

Core 2 Duo : is the newest architecture made by intel, It was made to replace the inferior Pentium 4's and Pentium D's


Pentium Core duo : Is a processor type aswell the Pentium-D is actually 2 pentium 4 cores stuck to eachother (so its not really a dual core processor)


Conclusion: Go for the Core 2 Duo. , and if its about a laptop It will probably have a centrino Sticker on it aswell.

[Spartan Erik]

Wow I forgot about this thread; I ended up getting a Core 2 Duo laptop with the Centrino technology (or whatever you would like to call it). Issue resolved, thanks!