Celeron renamed to Pentium Dual Core, Hardware system 7 and 7a
Currently the Sandy Bridge recalls are in full swing and it looks like March or later before early adopters will be getting fixed chipsets back.
I was fortunate enough that someone needed a fairly inexpensive computer and preferred reliability to the latest and greatest. Socket 775 is vastly still available and at a great value as well.
The value machine was going to mainly run office software and surf internet. Multiple cores are pretty much a given anymore and I would not recommend less than a dual core.
Earlier in my blog I also spoke about the difference between the Celeron value chips compared to the more expensive Pentium, now Core 2 and Core series chips. Intel went and changed things again in the Core 2 and Core series by reintroducing a value chip and calling them Pentium Dual Core. Now talk about some confusion.
The other pretty standard item seemed to be DDR3 instead of DDR2 which was fine because DDR3 prices have fallen. 250GB and larger hard drives are also just within a few dollars of each other.
So we sat down and started configuring and immediately had a controversy over a 3Ghz chip. The Pentium Dual Core vs the Core 2 Duo in which all I could see was a little less bus speed, less cache, and almost $100 difference.
Also earlier in the blog with system #6 I already have a Core 2 Duo E8400 which is basically what the system would come with by moving up.
We ordered the system spending less than $400 without a monitor, but including keyboard and mouse.
I was allowed to test the system for a few days so I swapped out the Pentium Dual Core for the Core 2 Duo to see how much different they were. The two chips are identical in architecture by the way.
The other great wonder for testing this system was to be able to use two nearly identical Intel chipsets (G41 & Q45) with different RAM memory to compare DDR2 vs DDR3. I will be using the Core 2 Duo E8400 from system #6 to see whether the DDR3 in the new system makes much difference compared to the DDR2 in the previous system. Usually a system manufacturer saves money by putting in two smaller chips. This time the system came with one memory chip therefore not running in Dual Channel mode. I have a second chip on the way to see if dual channel mode might make a difference on the chipset.
System Components:
#7
I was fortunate enough that someone needed a fairly inexpensive computer and preferred reliability to the latest and greatest. Socket 775 is vastly still available and at a great value as well.
The value machine was going to mainly run office software and surf internet. Multiple cores are pretty much a given anymore and I would not recommend less than a dual core.
Earlier in my blog I also spoke about the difference between the Celeron value chips compared to the more expensive Pentium, now Core 2 and Core series chips. Intel went and changed things again in the Core 2 and Core series by reintroducing a value chip and calling them Pentium Dual Core. Now talk about some confusion.
The other pretty standard item seemed to be DDR3 instead of DDR2 which was fine because DDR3 prices have fallen. 250GB and larger hard drives are also just within a few dollars of each other.
So we sat down and started configuring and immediately had a controversy over a 3Ghz chip. The Pentium Dual Core vs the Core 2 Duo in which all I could see was a little less bus speed, less cache, and almost $100 difference.
Also earlier in the blog with system #6 I already have a Core 2 Duo E8400 which is basically what the system would come with by moving up.
We ordered the system spending less than $400 without a monitor, but including keyboard and mouse.
I was allowed to test the system for a few days so I swapped out the Pentium Dual Core for the Core 2 Duo to see how much different they were. The two chips are identical in architecture by the way.
The other great wonder for testing this system was to be able to use two nearly identical Intel chipsets (G41 & Q45) with different RAM memory to compare DDR2 vs DDR3. I will be using the Core 2 Duo E8400 from system #6 to see whether the DDR3 in the new system makes much difference compared to the DDR2 in the previous system. Usually a system manufacturer saves money by putting in two smaller chips. This time the system came with one memory chip therefore not running in Dual Channel mode. I have a second chip on the way to see if dual channel mode might make a difference on the chipset.
System Components:
#7
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3Ghz, 2 Cores/2 Threads (Dual Core), 6MB Cache, 1333Mhz Rated FSB
Socket 775, Wolfdale 45nm, Stepping A, Revision E0, Multiplier 9x, FSB-333Mhz
MMX, SSE 1,2,3,3S,4.1, EM64T, VT-X
#7a
CPU Intel Pentium Dual Core E5700 3Ghz, 2 Cores/2 Threads (Dual Core), 2MB Cache, 800Mhz Rated FSB
Socket 775, Wolfdale 45nm, Stepping A, Revision R0, Multiplier 15x, FSB-200Mhz
MMX, SSE 1,2,3,3S,4.1, EM64T, VT-X
Board OEM (Dell) Intel G41 / 82801GB (N10), Socket 775
2 * SATA, 10 * USB
Video G41 Chipset Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA4500)
Revision , 65nm, PCI, DDR3 64-bit, DirectX 10,
32MB Dedicated / 1024MB Dynamic Memory, 533Mhz GPU
RAM
2GB (1 * 2GB) Hyundai DDR3 1333 (PC3-10600)
#7 Running at 533Mhz Single Channel Mode (DDR3-1066), CAS 7-7-7-20,1.5V
#7a Running at 400Mhz Single Channel Mode (DDR3-800), CAS 6-6-6-15,1.5V
1979 MB Total, 1670MB Free after clean install
Not in use for testing:
Sound Realtek ALC269 HD Audio (onboard)
LAN Broadcom BC57xx NetXtreme Gigabit (onboard)
Optical SATA TSSCORP DVD+/-RW SuperDrive
Common Components to be used in all tests unless noted otherwise:
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA II 3Gbps
Power Supply 450 Watt 80+ Certified Modular Power Supply
KVM USB KVM with Logitech Optical Mouse, 104 Keyboard, 17" LCD DVI/VGA
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