Monday, October 20th 2008

Intel Releases Core 2 Duo E7400
Intel made an addition to its desktop processor lineup, by making Core 2 Duo E7400 official. The E7000 series dual-core processors mark the company's attempt to offer the benefits of the 45nm Penryn architecture with great value. Intel on its part, has respected the US $133 mark, with the new chip displacing the older E7300 chip to $113.
The Core 2 Duo E7400 is based on the 45nm Wolfdale-3M core. It features a clock speed of 2.80 GHz, and FSB speed of 1066 MHz. What it also means, is that it comes with a relatively high 10.5x FSB multiplier value. The processor features 3 MB of L2 cache.
The Core 2 Duo E7400 is based on the 45nm Wolfdale-3M core. It features a clock speed of 2.80 GHz, and FSB speed of 1066 MHz. What it also means, is that it comes with a relatively high 10.5x FSB multiplier value. The processor features 3 MB of L2 cache.
31 Comments on Intel Releases Core 2 Duo E7400
all that effort for a total increase of just under 300mhz from the slowest to the fastest.
im sure they will do it again with an "E7500" @ 3ghz :)
I'd still get E7200 for cheaper price or E7300 if those aren't around anymore. 1x or 0.5x multi difference is nothing. These crap out after 4GHz with air anyways so FSB isn't too high. Agree, they should have released E7200, then E7400 and then E7600 (3059mhz) and be done with it. But they made half multies, so now they have to use them.
At least Intel is changing the clock speeds.
edit: newegg doesn't have 'em yet :(
but I did just notice the e5200 with a 12.5x multi (200 x 12.5 = 2500), but only 2mb cache. Anybody know how this compares to the e7x00 series in overclocking?
higher multis are nice, offer some more BUS OCing room if you can bring the multi down . . . but after a certain point, high stock multis get a little ridiculous (x23, anyone?)
Such high multi's just make these chips cry out to be overclocked.
I need to at least 1.45v to get 4.0ghz :banghead: