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Hardware Intel Offers up Budget Celeron, Pentium Ivy Bridge Chips for as Little as $42
Jason Mick (Blog) - January 22, 2013 6:20 PM

15 comment(s) - last by talikarni.. on Jan 25 at 4:22 PM

22 nm just got a lot more budget friendly

If you're a budget computer shopper or OEM looking to build budget systems, take note -- Intel Corp. (INTC) is pushing its 22 nm Ivy Bridge cores out into the low end of the commodity CPU market.

The company yesterday announced eight new budget dual-core parts -- three new Celerons (ultra low end) and four new Pentiums (low end). The new chips do come with DDR3 support, power savings from the die-shrink, and an improved integrated GPU. However, unlike higher end parts they lack hyperthreading.

In the Celeron brand $42 USD will buy you a fetching G1610 (2.6 GHz, 55 W) or G1610T (2.3 GHz, 35 W), while $52 will get you a G1620 (2.7 GHz, 55 W).

If you're a big spender you can put down $64 USD for a Pentium and get a G2010 (2.8 GHz, 55 W), G2020 (2.9 GHz, 55 W), or G2020T (2.5 GHz, 35 W). Or you could really go wild and purchase an $86 USD Pentium G2130 (3.2 GHz, 55 W).

The Pentiums carry 3 MB of L3 cache, while the Celerons offer only 2 MB of L3.

_{Intel is offering more affordable Ivy Bridge chips, at last. [Image Source: Intel]}

Rounding out the lineup is the launch of the i3-3210 (3.2 GHz, 55 W), a dual-core part that comes with hyperthreading (for four threads, total). Like the Pentiums, it comes with 3 MB of L3 cache.

The G2130 and the i3-3210 support slightly faster DDR3-1600, while the other new parts support DDR3-1333. Ivy Bridge launched in higher-end chips last April.

Source: Intel

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Hackintosh anyone?

By Lord 666 on 1/22/2013 8:48:22 PM , Rating: 2

Or for your mum/grandparents.

RE: Hackintosh anyone?

By Pneumothorax on 1/23/2013 9:57:07 AM , Rating: 2

These chips aren't hackintosh friendly unless you're willing to get a discrete video card. Afaik, no one has been able to get anything but hd4000 to work in osx and all the chips above have neutered igpus.

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RE: Hackintosh anyone?

By gibbs296 on 1/23/2013 12:44:29 PM , Rating: 2

With a little research you can find tons of cheap graphics cards that work perfect out of the box for mountain lion. These new cpu's will be VERY hackintosh friendly.

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