Product Description

The Intel Pentium dual-core processor is the newest addition to the Intel Pentium processor family. This dual-core processor delivers great mobile performance, low power enhancements, and multitasking for everyday computing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10854 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Intel
• Model: BX80557E2180
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, .88 pounds
• Processors: 1

Features

• Box Contents - Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 2.0GHz processor, Heatsink and Fan
• 2.0GHz processor
• 1MB L2 Cache
• 800MHz Front Side Bus
• LGA 775 Socket

Manufacturer Product Description
As the latest addition to Intel's long-running Pentium line, the Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor gives mainstream users exactly what they need to go beyond everyday computing. Featuring two complete processing "brains" on one physical processor, the Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor operates with excellent efficiency and is backed by Intel's legendary reliability. Built to enable entry level multitasking for home, office and educational environments, the Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor can handle multiple applications simultaneously thanks to its superior energy-efficient dual-core architecture. This is the ideal processor for those looking to combine versatility, reliability and value.

Amazon.com Product Description
As the latest addition to Intel's long-running Pentium line, the Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor gives mainstream users exactly what they need to go beyond everyday computing. Featuring two complete processing "brains" on one physical processor, the Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor operates with excellent efficiency and is backed by Intel's legendary reliability. Built to enable entry level multitasking for home, office and educational environments, the Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor can handle multiple applications simultaneously thanks to its superior energy-efficient dual-core architecture. This is the ideal processor for those looking to combine versatility, reliability and value.Exclusively From Intel
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution. Enables the delivery of more instructions per clock cycle for shorter execution times and improved energy efficiency—accomplish more simultaneously and with greater efficiency.

Intel® Intelligent Power Capability. Turning off portions of the processor when they aren't being used improves overall energy efficiency and reduces heat production, resulting in a quieter, more energy efficient system.

Intel® Smart Memory Access. Increasing available data bandwidth means more multitasking with less slowdown—run more demanding applications simultaneously and accomplish more in less time.

Intel® Advanced Smart Cache. Placing data closer to the processing cores improves platform responsiveness and performance with a wide range of applications.

Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost. Accelerates performance with a wide range of applications, including video, gaming, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications.

Multitasking
With programs and applications gradually becoming more complex and graphics intensive, running multiple programs simultaneously can quickly consume available processing resources. As a result, computers with traditional single core processors can grind to a halt when running multiple applications. However, by placing two cores on a single processor, the Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor transforms slow, burdened processing into a thing of the past.

Energy Efficiency
By turning off portions of the processor when they are not needed, Intel® Intelligent Power Capability optimizes energy usage while ensuring that performance is available only when it is needed. As a result, desktops featuring the Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor can run quieter and be smaller and lighter than previous-generation PCs.

Customer Reviews

Good for overclocking but fan mount is fairly poor
I'm running this CPU at 2.4GHz without any problems and it's running very cool too with the stock fan. The fan mounting mechanism isn't so great though since you need to apply a lot of pressure onto the plastic "nails" to get it to lock down securely. This excessive pressure may damage your motherboard during the mounting process.

Great Cheap Dual-Core CPU for Overclockers
If you are willing to overclock your CPU and want a 3GHz dual core processor for under $100, you may have found exactly what you're looking for in the E2180. If you are not an overclocker, or don't know what overclocking is, I would recommend you spend another $100 or so and get a CPU that comes factory clocked a bit higher than the 2 GHz this processor runs at out of the box. (Though, to be honest, even 2 GHz is pretty darn fast if you aren't into video editing or gaming.)

For you overclockers out there, the E2180 is a solid performer: I am running the E2180 at 3GHz using the 10x multiplier (on room air), which lets you run the CPU at a higher clock rate than the typical 8x multiplier many other CPU's use (which then forces you to ramp up the front side bus which winds up being a premature limiting factor). I use a Gigabyte motherboard which automatically ups the core voltage, so I don't recall exactly what the CPU voltage is set at, but it's certainly a modest increase (at least, relative to the Core 2 Duo E6400 I also own and run at 3GHz). I benched the 3GHz OC'd E2180 using 3D Mark 06 Demo Version and received a CPU score of about 2800. Pretty darn good for such an inexpensive processor, if you ask me.

NOTE: I can't comment on the heat sink and fan that come with the processor because I have an after-market heat sink and fan (brand: Zalman) that I use instead.

Don't Get "Fanned"
To say I was disappointed is a vast understatement!
Though the CPU itself is a very good one, as are most Intel CPUs, the same can't be said for the fan.
To build a fast CPU and then provide this piece of junk to "protect" it is almost criminal.
Of all the fans I have worked with this is by far the worse one. How do you build a heavy fan that will hang vertically in a computer case and use PLASTIC footings is beyond belief.
After properly installing the fan, it took less than one day for it to come loose and almost fry the CPU!.
Checking it out, I found that the plastic footings had just plain pulled loose from the motherboard.
I then went out and bought a third party fan, a Zerotherm CF900 for less than $30.00. This fan has metal mounting legs and once installed is as solid as a rock. It also cools the CPU to about 31 Degrees Centegrade as opposed to the high 50's and low 60's as the Intel fan did the short time it stayed mounted.
So my recommendations are to buy the CPU and NOT the fan from Intel if you want your CPU to live much more than a couple of days unless your motherboard is mounted horizontally so that the cheap plastic legs don't pull out. Then go out and buy a good third party fan like the CF900 and you won't have to worry about it pulling away from the motherboard and turning your CPU into burnt toast.
This might cost you an additional $10 over buying the CPU-Fan combo from Intel but you will get a much safer and better system from the deal. There may be fans that cost only $20 and have metal mountings, but I have not checked this out since I liked the design of the CF900, in which case the cost would be the same as buying the Intel combo product.
My advice to Intel is to stop trying to save 50 cents by using plastic mounting equipment and risking destroying a hundred dollars worth of computing power. The cheap fan might get your customers to come back for a replacement once, but also might drive them to your competitors providing better cooling equipment as it would have with me had I not found a good third party fan to save the day.