Budget 45nm Penryn CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200

There has never been a time when Intel capitalized so much on a winning architecture, other than now with their very successful Core 2 family of processors. Intel have released so many variations of the same architecture and now this is the budget 45nm Penryn CPU, its called the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200. The CPU has it all for a budget user who doesn’t want to sacrifice performance. Penryn gives us power savings and extra features found across the latest E8000 series. Tweak town have gave the E7200 a 12 page hands-on review and in their final thoughts they said “Intel has managed to once again augment its Core 2 Duo line of processors with another winner. While we normally focus on quad core and high-end power from the Chipzilla, Core 2 Duo has some really good budget parts, and none are better than the E7200.

While it comes clocked at a slower 2.53GHz compared to the higher clock of the E4700s 2.66GHz, the higher bus speed of 1066MHz, an extra 1MB of L2 cache and its 45nm construction of the Penryn architecture gives the E7200 a greater feature set while managing to keep its power consumption down and continue to offer some extremely good performance.

If you’re looking for something for a HTPC or digital home setup, you’re not going to be disappointed with an E7200. It has more than enough power to do fast media encoding; its memory bandwidth is excellent thanks to its 1066MHz FSB and its 45nm die makes it more power efficient than the older E4000 series.”

Read the 12 page review.