I. Introduction

The Intel® Core™ Duo T2000 series of processors is the first processor to ever receive the "Core" branding, even before Conroe, Merom, and Woodcrest is given birth. It was first given limelight in January of this year, along with Apple's thrust to use Intel processors in its line of products. And while it is the first time for the world to hear, officially, about Mobile on Desktop, enthusiasts has already been playing with such concept long before and if you are an Intel enthusiast, then you would have already heard, or better yet, own an Asus P4GD1 + Asus CT-479 + Intel® Pentium® M.

At this time, AOpen has been very sneaky with their AOpen* i975Xa-YDG motherboard that supports the new mobile processor from Intel. And again, just a few months after, many have been tweaking with Yonah, which is the core of this T-series of processor, and partnering them with SLI-based-hacked-driver with AOpen's uber enthusiast motherboard. Many hailed this processor as the new king, next to the Dothan which is the previous generation mobile processor. And already, with this processor, enthusiasts who have been keeping tabs with Intel developments have seen that clock for clock, this processor rocks all other processors in its time and even get more excited of what Conroe will have to offer. If this processor, which is the first generation to get the "Core" branding has been rocking big time, what more does Conroe will bring to the enthusiast? Of course, that has been answered already and everything is history.

If I may add anything this processor lacks, it is clockspeed. Being still based on Banias uA, much like Dothan, only with shared L2 cache (hence, the "Core" branding), those who use the stock cooler can't break that high of a clock frequency even with DDR2 hovering above 667MHz. With a 667MHz processor system bus (or 166MHz FSB) many feared that Yonah will be bandwidth starve, with many enthusiasts still not realizing the full potential of a shared cache feature and how it can help alleviate system memory access latency. Again, the rest is history as Conroe has proven it as well. Gone are the days where disbelief at how such efficiency can be achieved with out the integrated memory controller. And in time, performance per watt reigns supreme and the new mantra and the long standing FSB bottleneck myth is now broken, shattered, "in-your-face" shoving of truth to the detractors and vindication for the non-swaying believers. But enough of this, and let's move on the specifications...

II. Specification

The Intel® Core™ Duo T2600 has the following specifications:

• sSpec: ??
• Frequency: 2160 MHz (2.16GHz)
• Core: Yonah
• Process: 65nm
• Package: Socket479
• Core Voltage: 1.25v-1.4v
• Bus Speed: 166MHz
• L2 Cache: 2048KB^
• Multiplier: 13
• Stepping: C0-8
• Thermal Specification: 100c
• Thermal Guideline: 31w
• Platform Compatibility: ??
• EM64T: No
• Execute Disable: Yes
• Hyperthreading Technology: No
• Virtualization: Yes
• Core per Package: 2
• L2 Cache per Core: Shared 2048KB^