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Based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor family is designed to provide powerful energy-efficient performance so you can do more at once without slowing down.
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo desktop processors
With Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor, you'll experience revolutionary performance, unbelievable system responsiveness, and energy-efficiency second to none.
Big, big performance. More energy efficient.¹ Now available in smaller packages. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based desktop PC was designed from the ground up for energy efficiency, letting you enjoy higher performing, ultra-quiet, sleek, and low power desktop PC designs.
Multitask with reckless abandon. Do more at the same time, like playing your favorite music, running virus scan in the background, and all while you edit video or pictures. The powerful Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor provides you with the speed you need to perform any and all tasks imaginable.
Love your PC again. Don’t settle for anything less than the very best. Find your perfect desktop powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and get the best processing technology money can buy. Only from Intel.
• Up to 6MB L2 cache
• Up to 1333 MHz front side bus
Product information
Download the desktop processor product brief (PDF 767KB)
Features and benefits
Delivering the best overall performance. Period. With Intel Core 2 Duo processors powering your desktop PC you'll get the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 6MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus. And, all of the latest additions to the Intel Core 2 Duo processor family are built using Intel’s 45nm technology and Hafnium infused circuitry. You've got the future of computing now, and only from Intel:
Dual-Core Processing, combines two independent processor cores in one physical package. Processors run at the same frequency and share up to 6MB of L2 cache and up to 1333 MHZ Front Side Bus for truly parallel computing
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency
Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance and smarter battery performance in your laptop
Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth
Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors
Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications.

Processors
Intel® desktop processors deliver superb computing power, performance, and reliability at home and at work. Our notebook processors let you work and play in places you never thought possible. Our server and workstation processors provide enhanced scalability, power, and performance for robust multi-processing environments. And our embedded and communications processors combine outstanding performance with scalable, power-efficient processing for a wide range of embedded applications.
Desktop processors
Intel® Core™ processor family
Intel® Pentium® processor family
Intel® Celeron® processor family
Server and workstation processors
Intel® Server processors
Intel® Workstation processors
Internet device processors
Intel® Atom™ processor for netbooks and nettops
Intel® Atom™ processor for Mobile Internet Devices

Performance that Adjusts to Your Data Center Environment
IT BRIEFING - Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series provide a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers, achieving greater performance and energy efficiency. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series brings intelligent performance to the world's most trusted server architecture.
A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization with the Intel Xeon 5500
IT BRIEFING - To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.
First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation Intel Microarchitecture - Nehalem
WHITE PAPER - Read this paper and get a look at how the next generation microarchitecture's dynamically scalable and design-scalable features directly contribute to power efficiency and performance.

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Publisher's description of Intel DG35EC Motherboard

The Intel® Desktop Board DG35EC Classic Series has been optimized to deliver new levels of performance and reliability for home and business users.

The Intel Desktop Board DG35EC has built-in microATX form factor supporting a range of processors including the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, Intel® Core™2 Quad processor, Intel® Pentium® processor, Intel® Celeron® processor and Celeron® processor 400 series (up to 95W TDP). This board can support up to 8GB of dual channel DDR2 800/667 SDRAM memory. It also offers Intel® HD Video experience, Intel® High Definition Audio with support for 5.1 surround sound, integrated 10/100/1000 Network connection and ample USB connectors for all your computer peripherals. This Intel desktop board also offers IEEE 1394a, a new feature that contributes to a great digital entertainment experience.

The Intel Desktop Board DG35EC is Microsoft Windows Vista Premium ready. The Intel® 3 Series Chipset fully supports the visually stunning Microsoft Windows Aero* user interface with amazing transition effects and realistic animations.

Features and benefits

Form factor: MicroATX (9.60 inches by 9.60 inches [243.84 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])

Processor
At product launch, this desktop board supports:
* Support for an Intel® Core™2 Quad processor (95 W TDP) in an LGA775 socket with an 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor in an LGA775 socket with an 1333 or 1066 or 800 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Pentium® processor in an LGA775 socket with 800 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Celeron® or Intel® Celeron® 400 sequence processor in an LGA775 socket with 800 MHz system bus

Memory
* Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
* Support for DDR2 800 or DDR2 667 MHz DIMMs
* Support for up to 8 GBΣ of system memory

Chipset: Intel® G35 Express Chipset
Audio: 6-channel (5.1) audio subsystem using the Realtek ALC888S audio codec
Video: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3500 on board graphics subsystem
LAN Support: Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Peripheral interfaces
* Ten USB 2.0 ports
* Two IEEE-1394a interfaces (1 external port, 1 internal header)
* One serial port header
* Four Serial ATA IDE interfaces
* One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
* One diskette drive interface
* PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports

Expansion capabilities
* One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector
* Two PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connector
* One PCI Conventional bus connector

Publisher's description of Intel DG35EC Motherboard

The Intel® Desktop Board DG35EC Classic Series has been optimized to deliver new levels of performance and reliability for home and business users.

The Intel Desktop Board DG35EC has built-in microATX form factor supporting a range of processors including the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, Intel® Core™2 Quad processor, Intel® Pentium® processor, Intel® Celeron® processor and Celeron® processor 400 series (up to 95W TDP). This board can support up to 8GB of dual channel DDR2 800/667 SDRAM memory. It also offers Intel® HD Video experience, Intel® High Definition Audio with support for 5.1 surround sound, integrated 10/100/1000 Network connection and ample USB connectors for all your computer peripherals. This Intel desktop board also offers IEEE 1394a, a new feature that contributes to a great digital entertainment experience.

The Intel Desktop Board DG35EC is Microsoft Windows Vista Premium ready. The Intel® 3 Series Chipset fully supports the visually stunning Microsoft Windows Aero* user interface with amazing transition effects and realistic animations.

Features and benefits

Form factor: MicroATX (9.60 inches by 9.60 inches [243.84 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])

Processor
At product launch, this desktop board supports:
* Support for an Intel® Core™2 Quad processor (95 W TDP) in an LGA775 socket with an 1333 or 1066 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor in an LGA775 socket with an 1333 or 1066 or 800 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Pentium® processor in an LGA775 socket with 800 MHz system bus
* Support for an Intel® Celeron® or Intel® Celeron® 400 sequence processor in an LGA775 socket with 800 MHz system bus

Memory
* Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
* Support for DDR2 800 or DDR2 667 MHz DIMMs
* Support for up to 8 GBΣ of system memory

Chipset: Intel® G35 Express Chipset
Audio: 6-channel (5.1) audio subsystem using the Realtek ALC888S audio codec
Video: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3500 on board graphics subsystem
LAN Support: Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Peripheral interfaces
* Ten USB 2.0 ports
* Two IEEE-1394a interfaces (1 external port, 1 internal header)
* One serial port header
* Four Serial ATA IDE interfaces
* One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
* One diskette drive interface
* PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports

Expansion capabilities
* One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector
* Two PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connector
* One PCI Conventional bus connector

The OEM Intel D845GVSR Motherboard is fitted in a large number of Emachines. It is an 845GV/ICH4 chipset with support for 400 and 533 FSB Intel Processors. Graphics are onboard, though you may add a PCI card. Supports memory up to 2GB of DDR200/266/333.

There are 3 variants which merit a mention.
The first is the original Emachines Seabreeze model with a typical bios string (which you can find in system information) of SR84510B.44T.0019.P03. This generally came with a Northwood 400FSB Celeron, Realtek ALC202A Audio and a modem card depending on model. The second is late 2004, and is the same except for a typical bios string of SR84510B.44T.0038.P07, which adds support for Prescott 533FSB Celerons D325 to D340 with their lower Vcore voltages. There are no official Bios upgrades for these two models.

If you want to try fitting a Pentium in this motherboard, the best advice I can give you is to refer to this CPU support chart from Intel: http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/sr/sr_proc.htm. Bear in mind the 2.40A and 2.80A 1MB cache Pentiums are Prescott cored and will only be supported if your motherboard bios is already supporting a Prescott D series Celeron.

Lastly the Gateway Seabreeze T3 variant comes with a Soundmax AD1981B audio chip, a red diagnostic LED and a latest Gateway bios string of SR84510A.46T.0018.P7E which takes Celeron support up to D350. There is a reliable Bios upgrade at Gateway for this model.
Drivers are easy to find at the usual support sites for all models.

This motherboard and bios and drivers info applies to UK Emachines models 2210 2220 2230 2240 3210 3220 3250 3260 4250 4260 and also T2742 T2796 T2798 T2824 T2862 T2885 T2890 T2893 T2894 T2896 T2898 T2958 T2984 T3624 T3828 T3830 T3958 D2823 D2880 H2824 H2862 H3624 H3824 H3958 W2888

GA-P35-DS3P (rev. 2.1)
Test Setup

A common mistake made when benchmarking graphics cards is that the rest of the PC system isn't sufficient enough to test the GPU to its limits. This results in a bottleneck situation, where the system can only run at the speed of its slowest component. For this reason, the test configuration chosen below has been specially selected to give the 4670 Crossfire configuration plenty of headroom to produce the best results.

CPU
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz @ 3.6 Ghz

Motherboard
ASUS P5E64 WS Evolution

Memory
Cellshock DDR2 PC-2 6400 5-5-5-18 @ 800mhz

Power Supply
Tuniq Ensemble 1200w

Graphics Drivers
NVidia Forceware 180.48
ATI Catalyst 8.12.72276

Operating System
Windows Vista 64bit SP1

A selection of games and benchmark suites has also been chosen to test each of the graphics cards used in today's review on several different game engines. Each graphics card configuration will be run at both low and high resolutions with varying levels of texture filtering to represent 17", 20" and 24" screen sizes.

3DMark05
1024x768 / 0xAA
1680x1050 / 4xAA
1920x1200 / 4xAA

3DMark06
1280x1024 / 0xAA
1680x1050 / 4xAA
1920x1200 / 4xAA

3DMark Vantage
Performance Mode
High Mode
Extreme Mode

ET:Quake Wars
1440x900 / High / 4xAA
1680x1050 / High / 4xAA
1920x1200 / High / 4xAA

Unreal Tournament III
1440x900 / DX10
1680x1050 / DX10
1920x1200 / DX10

Call of Duty 4
1440x900 / Max / 4xAA
1680x1050 / Max / 4xAA
1920x1200 / Max / 4xAA

Farcry 2
1440x900 / Max / 4xAA
1680x1050 / Max / 4xAA
1920x1200 / Max / 4xAA

Racedriver GRID
1440x900 / High / 4xAA
1680x1050 / High / 4xAA
1920x1200 / High / 4xAA

Crysis
1440x900 / DX10 / High / 4xAA
1680x1050 / DX10 / High / 4xAA
1920x1200 / DX10 / High / 4xAA

During the benchmarking phase, we will be using the following prices extracted from US retailer newegg.com on 15/01/09 to produce our CPF (Cost Per Frame) graphs. Please remember that these graphs are static and only represent a snapshot of the market at the time of this review.

2x Gigabyte HD 4670 (GV-R467D3-512I) - $159.98
Gigabyte HD 4850 Overclocked (GV-R485OC-1GH) - $138.00
HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ 1GB Turbo - $239.99
Zotac GTX260 (216) 896MB - $269.99


Overclocking

Using the "Auto-Tune" facility built into the ATI Overdrive™ driver control panel, the maximum overclock we were able to obtain from the Gigabyte HD 4670's in Crossfire was 765MHz on the core and 1050MHz on the memory. This is quite a small increase over the 750MHz / 1000MHz stock values, but in all honesty we weren't expecting a card aimed more at the HTPC market to be an overclocking monster.



Testing the card at both its stock and our overclocked settings in 3DMark Vantage Performance mode reveals that this small increase in speed on the core and memory certainly wasn't fruitless and managed to bag us over 200 additional points.

Few weeks ago, I bought new DG965WH (Media series) Intel Motherboard. It’s an ultimate piece when power, performance and media are taken in account. I’m not listing the full specification but you can find them here. The most tempting is its 7.1 Audio Output support. I’ve been using a number of Intel motherboards, i.e. 810e, 845, 945 GNT, 965 RY. I can comfortably say this have the best audio output quality with Dolby Home Theater certification and based on Intel® Viiv™ technology.

Other revisions: 1.0 1.1 2.0

Supports Intel® Core™ 2 multi-core and 45nm processors
Supports DDR2 1200(OC)* memory for outstanding system performance
Ultimate graphics performance with dual PCI-E x16 interface
Integrated SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function
Features high speed Gigabit Ethernet and IEEE1394
ALC889A with DTS Connect enables high quality Full Rate Lossless Audio and support for Blu-ray
Ultra Durable 2 motherboard features High Quality CPU Power design with Ferrite core chokes, Low RDS (on) MOSFET and Solid Capacitors.
Revolution energy saving design with GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver(DES) technology
Unique Silent-Pipe thermal technology

Faster performance enabled by Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem
Automatically increase processor frequency and utilize Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) as needed
Efficiently manage energy expense by scaling power consumption to workload, enabled by Intel® Intelligent Power Technology
Next Generation Intel® Virtualization Technology enables best-in-class virtualization performance, superb scalability, enhanced flexibility, and simplified server management
Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM) SDK provides power and thermal monitoring and management for servers, racks and groups of servers in data centers. Management Console Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) can integrate Intel® DCM into their console or command-line applications and provide high value power management features to IT organizations.

At Intel we’re very fond of starting sentences with the word ‘so’, particularly when we’re talking to each other, and even more so if we happen to be in conversation with people external to Intel. I think we use it to buy ourselves a precious second or two of thinking time before opening our mouths and going on the record. 

So… I admit it is pretty pretentious to even consider the correlation between a cornerstone of one of mankind’s greatest thinkers and something so apparently mundane as a CPU, but there are times when an idea occurs that just latches on like a - insert your own simile here – and just will not leave you alone.

I’m not going to give you a mini bio of Aristotle the man; if you’re reading this you know how to use Wikipedia or Google. He was undeniably a very influential thinker, and in some respects, way ahead of his time, particularly when you consider he was writing/teaching in the mid 300s BC and that many of his world views were held to be universal until the enlightenment in the late 18th Century. Aristotle is also widely considered to be the father of logic, defining the need for, and the methodology of, deductive reasoning. He was the first person to really set down ways of structuring the process of thinking, of reasoning and it is not stretching the point too far that his work was the root of the subsequent developments on which computing logic is based, no matter how far removed it may appear now.

Among the most famous principles of reasoning is the set of rules he laid out in order to determine the inherent nature of an object. To fully understand it we must ask four questions, we must determine its four “causes”. The word ‘cause’ is one that seems to have resulted from translation from ancient greek, and clearly something has been lost in translation, as the word cause does not carry the same meaning as it does today, so much so that it defies succinct translation even today. Rather it is better to put it in the form of 4 questions which, if responded to help you to understand an object in a holistic fashion. Aristotle is said to have used the example of a statue, but these questions were designed to help us understand all objects. Of course, things were much simpler back in Aristotle’s day, but what sort of understanding do we get of an object that is more complex: an Intel quad-core processor for example. 

The first question is: from what is it made (what is its material cause)? The main portion of the answer to this question is of course silicon. But we ought not to stop there. Take a modern day processor, it has silver, tin, hafnium (lovely hafnium!). For simplicity’s sake, let’s leave it as silicon. Next, the formal cause, or more simply put: what is it? Well… um… it’s a processor, a quad-core processor. Yes, we could argue it’s a microchip, a semiconductor or even - and I have a feeling Aristotle would like this - a logic device, but to me it is a processor pure and simple. What brought the object into being is the third question, i.e what is its efficient cause. As an Intel employee this is where you start to feel good about the company you work for. It was born out of one of the cleanest, one of the most advanced manufacturing environments in the world, an environment built to hugely exacting requirements that in some ways they are as remarkable as the devices that they are used to produce. I speak of course of a wafer fab, an Intel wafer fab. I’ve never been inside one of these buildings, so they still hold an extra mystique for me. So far, so good, if unremarkable: it’s a processor, made from silicon (and hafnium), in a fab. We probably all knew that.

So what of the fourth cause, or, as Aristotle called it its final cause? Well the answer to this is, like the device itself, infinitely complex. If we left our imagination at home, the answer to the question ‘what is it for’ could simply be left at ‘computing’, or ‘processing’. But that would be to not answer the question properly or fully. The real answer is, if you want to keep it short and sweet, “whatever you want it to be for”. It can help you do whatever you want with your PC, notebook, or server.

This is the crux of the matter. The choices are endless, or at least as endless as the variety of applications and usages that are out there. What is more, the world and its economy are more reliant on these devices than ever before. We are using them every time we search the web, every time we make an online purchase, and many do not have a so much as an inkling that we are using one. In March this year, Intel launched its latest quad-core processor, in the Intel® Xeon® processor family – the 5500 series for servers and workstations. It seems a shame that it is being introduced to a world that is not as ebullient as once it was. But in another way, these circumstances provide Nehalem EP with an opportunity. It is in times of strife that innovation comes to the fore, receiving more focus as we all count on it to deliver us from stagnation. 

This is where such a processor, in tandem with a variety of applications can shine. It provides the means for obsolete hardware to be replaced at a cost which is recouped in less than a year, it provides the means for digital artists to express their ideas better and more immediately than ever before, it enables movies to be animated in 3D, it helps find new reserves of oil, and provides the horsepower to design machines that are more energy-efficient and sustainable than before. There are a wealth of documents on this site that will explain the compelling ROI in replacing old, single-core servers with new machines based on the Xeon 5500 series CPU. And what is exciting is that there are people out there who will take advantage of this supremely quick computing power combined with its intelligent performance and put it to new uses, providing a firm with a new competitive advantage. Then other firms will follow suit, and this pattern, as it snowballs, begins to haul us out of the mire. Don’t misunderstand me, not even Xeon 5500 is going to fix this economic situation singlehandedly or speedily, but history teaches us that technology comes to the fore when times are tough, and the better the technology, the more it stands out, and that those who make best use of it, establish themselves as leaders.

So to bring it back to that curious 4th cause: what is it for? Well, with so many possible answers, we can only stick our hand in to all of those notions above and pick one at random or just pick a favourite. Others will pick something that has not occurred to anyone else and will use that to build a business opportunity. My inclination is to say that it is for innovation, for IT to show its value to the business, as contributor to the bottom line. A little trite maybe, but it is true. It is also an answer derived from a certain amount of logic. Surely Aristotle would not want to argue with that.

Intel® desktop processors deliver superb computing power, performance, and reliability at home and at work. Our notebook processors let you work and play in places you never thought possible. Our server and workstation processors provide enhanced scalability, power, and performance for robust multi-processing environments. And our embedded and communications processors combine outstanding performance with scalable, power-efficient processing for a wide range of embedded applications.