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Processors gain Hyper Threading benefits but lose ECC support.
Gosh Intels naming conventions are a mess now. The Intel Pentium N3700 is a quad core chip for mobile use... They really should have stuck with Atom for low power, low spec mobile chips... Its become impossible to just buy a chip based on numbers without researching which core type they are using (and benchmarks) to actually know what you are getting nowadays. I miss the days where atom meant mobile, celeron, pentium, core where desktop with varying levels of performance.
Nice to see the main site has finally caught up with the forums on this one ;) http://forums.hexus.net/pc-hardware-...-champion.html
To be fair, model numbers from almost every tech manufacturer has been a complete mess for years and really are not indicative of their performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheesemp
My main problem with Intel at the moment is how the features within a range keeps changing....like this with the HT/ECC, we now have Xeons and desktop CPUs on the same socket that requires different chipsets.....like Intel hadn't made motherboard/cpu pairings restrictive enough already......
To be honest it's not a good excuse is it. It can't be that hard to have a model for cheap mobile, expensive mobile, cheap desktop, expensive desktop (and maybe mid level?), a generation and then a performance number? Its frustrating as choosing laptops etc for family/friends use to be simple job I could do do in a few minutes (i.e. find i3 laptop with 4gb/1tb etc) now it takes ages to work out what is equivalent to what...Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
Intel giveth and Intel and taketh away.
I just don't feel they are offing enough upgrade to buy any of these atm