Intel Technologies

When launched later this year, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor will provide enhanced performance and energy-efficiency in mobile applications while bringing for the first time the benefits of energy-efficient performance to mainstream desktop computing. It will be Intel's highest performing desktop processor ever and the new first choice of gamers and multimedia professionals worldwide.

As with the Intel® Pentium® processor brand, use of the number "2" signals the arrival of the next generation of technology to the Intel® Core™ processor line. In order to be consistent with our current Intel Core processor naming, we are continuing to use "Duo" to creatively and effectively indicate Intel® dual-core technology.

* Intel® Intelligent Power Capability
Intel® Intelligent Power Capability is a set of capabilities designed to reduce power consumption and design requirements. This feature manages the runtime power consumption of all the processor's execution cores. The result is excellent energy optimization enabling the Intel Core microarchitecture to deliver more energy-efficient performance for desktop PCs, mobile PCs and servers.
* Intel® Advanced Smart Cache
The Intel® Advanced Smart Cache is a multi-core optimized cache that significantly reduces latency to frequently used data, thus improving performance and efficiency by increasing the probability that each execution core of a dual-core processor can access data from a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem.
* Intel® Smart Memory Access
Intel® Smart Memory Access improves system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth from the memory subsystem and hiding the latency of memory accesses.
* Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost
The Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost is a feature that significantly improves performance when executing Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE/SSE2/SSE3) instructions.




REVIEW BY: Highskul Reviewed
I didn't purchase this from here, but this is a freaking AWESOME processor. After using the stock cooler for only 2 months i went with a Zalman 9700. I have this overclocked to 3.2, but i can run it at 3.4ghz without any problems. VERY COOL processor! With the cooler i can hit 41*C at full load (that's having multiple conversions at one time running :P). With the right software i can convert a 25 minute video to an iPod in about 95 seconds and still maintain great video quality.