Celeron Core 2 E1200 Review or Core 2 for nothing

Page 2 – Celeron E1200 – Conservative lower class

Intel keep up their old tradition of creating lower class value processors. The architecture of the processor being taken in absolutely unchanged state from the middle class processor, with only reduction in the bus frequency and the amount of cache.

But let's not rush into the technicalities around the essence of E1200. Although most gamers, overclockers an computer enthusiasts call the Celeron processors “socket plugs” for quite a while now, what are we witnessing now is is a Dual Core Celeron, based on the Allendale core. Yes, the same core, basis of both 2XXX and 4XXX series of 65nm Dual Core processors, so popular throughout the mass user for their excellent price/performance interrelation. So as you have probably guessed - we must be able to get the same overclock potential (or even more due to the smaller amount of cache). This Intel implementation of multiple core processor at a price of about 70$ is promising, at least on paper.

There is an important thing to be noted though – AMD are long represented in this class. The lower models in the X2 series are sold at exceptional price for a long time, but not because AMD are aiming at the lower class, but because Intel's Core 2 architecture is far superior and X2 in no position to be sold with a different price policy. While Intel are aiming at a market share exactly in the lower class, even at he cost of a forced entry.