Intel
brought in the Core 2 Duo that literally owned AMD in the enthusiast and
consumer market. Two years later, Intel continued to floor the gas pedal -- and
it's not a gas pedal in just any car -- continuing the cycle of price slashes,
new stepping revisions, and lately the arrival o f the Penryn 45nm CPUs. Well,
here we are, with two vastly different CPUs sitting in our labs right now. Of
which one is a so-called 'low end' dual core Wolfdale E7200 CPU (Like dang, I
paid $200 for an E6300 back in 2006... this thing is low end? It's faster than
an E6600) priced at $133 per 1000 units, and the second is the second best
consumer processor from Intel -- the Core 2 Extreme QX9650 retailing for over
$1000. Today, we'll look at the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale CPU and see how
much bang you can get for the buck. @ APH Networks
