• 2 Cores
• 65 W Maximum Thermal Design Power (TDP)
• 45 nm Manufacturing Process
• 2.93 GHz Clock Speed
• 64-bit Architecture
• LGA775 Socket Type
• 3 MB (L2)

With the Wolfdale core, Intel pours more power into the Core 2 Duo package. The 45nm process allows Intel to reduce the power down to 65W. Lower power means less CPU heat, which translates to lower system heat and longer life. They also packed more features into the chip.

The L2 cache has been bumped to 3MB and the Front Side Bus has been pushed to 1066MHz. You can now use both DDR2 and the hot new DDR3 memory for extreme performance. They also boosted memory access and execution speed with the Wide Dynamic Execution and Smart Memory Access. These technologies work together to let the processor compute more instructions with more data per clock cycle. You'd better watch out -- your enemies will be shooting back faster now!

The Advanced Digital Media Boost feature has been enhanced with the addition of the SSE4 instruction set and Intel HD Boost, to give your entertainment experience better audio and video processing. It will also help with speech recognition, engineering and scientific applications. Most important of all is the security boost with increased speed and encryption power.

Specialized Dual-core Microarchitecture

Intel Advanced Smart Cache    

Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T)

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)