Duo chip question

MrsTinks

On a slightly off topic tangent - does anyone else have one fo these? How are you getting on with them? Am seriously thinking of buying one for normal gaming (no high end 3D stuff), websurfing, a bit of html and some basic office stuff as well as playing DVDs on in bed when OH is hogging the TV for Chelsea or Scotland games

Zagu

A bit of digging about found this.

"The Intel Pentium Dual Core is a new brand of Intel Processor that first appeared in selected base model notebook computers from Dell,[4] Acer,[5] HP,[6] and Toshiba in early 2007. These processors are identified by the model numbers T2060 or T2080, indicating it is related to the Intel Core family of processors and may be a variant of the Intel Core T2050 chip. Early research reveals the processor to be similar to Core processors but with only a 1MB L2 Cache, whereas Core processors feature 2MB caches.[7]

It is not known why, after announcing the retirement of the Pentium brand name, Intel has brought it back, although Intel did announce possible plans to return the Pentium brand to the market as an alias for low cost Core 2 chips based on the Conroe-L architecture. The planned numbers for those processors to carry the Pentium brand were to be prefixed by the letter E, not T as the Pentium Dual Core uses.[8]"

Wiki

Im sure it'll be fine.

rjm2k1

Are you sure it's not a Centrino, rather than Celeron?

superscaper

rjm2k1 wrote: »

Are you sure it's not a Centrino, rather than Celeron?

It could have that sticker on depending on the specs.

Millionaire

superscaper wrote: »

Probably just marketing pedantics but it's not called a "Core Duo", but a "Pentium Dual Core". For some reason they brought back the "pentium" name for these specific mobile chips and they don't seem to "officially" come under the "duo" brand but they do have 2 cores.

Its the Same thing, different name. As you say its just marketing

The T2000 range were the original Coreduo's such as T2500, T2300 etc

Since they use the same T2000 range and are not classfied as Core2duo I think its safe to say they are really just Coreduo's with a newer name.

The Core2duos start like T5200, T5500 etc.

Millionaire

superscaper wrote: »

It could have that sticker on depending on the specs.

My XP Laptop has a Core Duo and my Vista laptop has a Core2duo and they both have Centrino Stickers on them, so I think the OP is just getting the 2 mixed up by mistake.

happyhero

Hi thanks for all the inputs, I have the machine here now. I have gone to Device manager and clicked on Processors. It shows two entries first one is

Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2080 @ 1.73GHz

and the next says

Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz

and they are two seperate entries not one long one or anything silly like that.

Can anybody tell me what is going on here from this information, please?

Because I don't understand it now at all.

superscaper

What does CPU-Z say from Chippy's post?

happyhero

Right sorry it took so long, looking at the CPU tab on CPU-Z I cannot see any relevance to Celeron it says under Name, Intel Duo Core T2250 and under Specification, Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2080 @ 1.73GHz. Cant really see what bits to show on here that will help, but it is no mistake that Celeron is shown where I said earlier, help!

I checked the other tabs for any mention of Celeron and can't find it anywhere. What is going on?

superscaper

Well your laptop definitely only has ONE processor, and it is definitely the Dual Core T2080. The celeron must be some strange generic legacy drivers that get installed on the laptop, that's the only explanation I can think of. As I said it would be physically impossible for there to be two processors so it must be a software glitch. Although if it's not giving a problem then maybe best to leave it, unless anyone can suggest anything else.