Was Core 2 Duo a milestone processor?

A video blog about whether the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor represents a major historical significance for the future of computer processors and whether there will be as many reason to upgrade your computer in the future.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• apple
• mac
• pc
• imac
• windows
• os
• snow
• leopard
• macbook
• pro
• core
• duo
• i7
• i5
• upgrade
• computer
• intel

[dinnerandashow]

"Slightly ahead of the software"

Obviously you do not do video editing.

Nor are you in the professional field of science or engineering.

[LACK78]

I'm a video editor, I use Final Cut Studio 2.

[sparky1499]

Skynet is on the horizon... ;o)

[neoparshath]

lol quad core, we're currently at 8 core now. now we're striving for 116 core.

[ANDREWOFPR2]

its 2012 and im still using a core2duo

[Nissangtr786]

Also pentium 4's struggled heavily on flash. A core 2 duo was needed for flash to play smoothly as well as high definition video.

[Nissangtr786]

Ivy bridge will be the next big upgrade since core 2 duo with 3d transistors. Next year laptops will be thin very powerful. Imagine a pentium 4 in a laptop, it could heat the house doing a task that will take 1 minute on ivy bridge vs the pentium 4 that will take an hour to do while taking more power consumption.

Say i7 2600k vs pentium 4 3.8ghz. Performance per watt say p4 is 1x an i7 would be on most tasks 20x better performance per watt.

[Nissangtr786]

Meant to say p4 being one of the worst cpu's made and the core 2 duo being very power efficient.

[Nissangtr786]

Protoking: Pentium 4 was one of the worts proccessors made. AMD last led the performance per watt by a considerable way with athlon 64 and x2 etc.

Pentium m was the first stage which intel used to realise you can have power and efficiency and they produced core duo then core 2 duo which not only was 64bit but very power finished and didn't need to run at 3ghz to be fast. Theres a reason wht core 2 duo overclocked.

Pentium 4's were probably the worst cpu released performance per watt.

[jfdomega]

yep!

[Protoking]

@kawaiifreak860 Simply put, the high clocked (good) Pentium 4 processors were available in 2003/2 and were the first processors along with Later Athlon XP's and any Athlon 64 that didn't frequently max themselves out running basic applications such as web based video, flash on the internet etc. These processors finally let users take full control of their computer.

Core 2 was a great chip but by time it came out (2006) it was overkill for the uses of most people while most were satisfied in 03.

[kawaiifreak860]

@Protoking

Then why is the core 2 based on the PIII?

And why is it a 800mhz PIII beats a 1.0ghz + P4?

Explain this bullshit.

[kawaiifreak860]

Not really, the pentium III was the milestone, the core 2 duo is actually based on the PIII so you can thank it for your core2duo and the core i5+ series is based on the PIII and some much welcome parts of the P4 architecture, as well as some things copied from AMD, (Speed throttling anyone?)

[Protoking]

@kuza261 I agree the Pentium 4 was the real milestone, it can still play some of the games today and it's the first processor I've used that didn't choke up opening every little application. Even today it can rip through web pages and is all most consumers need. That said my main rig is an E8400@3.6GHz and I love it.