Core 2 Duo E6600s rebranded as "Pentium?"

[rei]

Was picking out some Dell breadboxes for a friend and noticed their low-end Vostro 230 has the E6600 as a "Pentium Dual Core." Did they just rebadge their top-of-the-line C2D from 3 years ago as Pentium or are these actually different silicon?

http://www.dell.com/ca/business/p/desktop-deals

[Waltzer]

Was picking out some Dell breadboxes for a friend and noticed their low-end Vostro 230 has the E6600 as a "Pentium Dual Core." Did they just rebadge their top-of-the-line C2D from 3 years ago as Pentium or are these actually different silicon?

http://www.dell.com/ca/business/p/desktop-deals

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42807 - TLDR, it is different than the Core2Duo E6600, which is here: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27250

[Hugin]

Different silicon. The old E6600s were 65nm Conroe chips. The new ones are 45nm Wolfdale chips. Intel has been playing around with the "Pentium" vs "Core" branding the past several years (for a while they were basically going to retire the Pentium brand, but then they brought it back), so there's a bit of generational confusion.

[rei]

Is it a decent low-end buy with performance comparable to the old E6600 C2D then?

[Hans Lauring]

Different silicon. The old E6600s were 65nm Conroe chips. The new ones are 45nm Wolfdale chips. Intel has been playing around with the "Pentium" vs "Core" branding the past several years (for a while they were basically going to retire the Pentium brand, but then they brought it back), so there's a bit of generational confusion.

As a brand Pentium is the best known Intel chip (amongst not so technical people looking to buy a new pc), so Intel decided they needed to keep the brand/name alive in some form.

[jpinard]

As a brand Pentium is the best known Intel chip (amongst not so technical people looking to buy a new pc), so Intel decided they needed to keep the brand/name alive in some form.

Wish they wouldn't. Every time I see the name "Pentium" pop up I immidiately think "old & slow". Just like Athlon.

[rei]

No, that would be reserved for "Celeron."

[Paul_cze]

And "Duron".

[Gus_Smedstad]

No, that would be reserved for "Celeron."
I always thought of those as the Celery processors.

It's about time they moved from the Pentium brand to Sextium.

[Hugin]

Is it a decent low-end buy with performance comparable to the old E6600 C2D then?

*shrug* I guess? It's clocked at a higher speed, running on a smaller process. It has less L2 cache. What is the computer going to be used for? Processors kind of don't matter any more unless you're doing something specialized.

[rei]

It's going to play Gothic 4 with a Radeon HD5670.