MT3705 owners! Which processor do you have?

Just got my MT3705 a week ago and I'm loving it. Having seen some people on these forums say that instead of the advertised Intel T2060 1.6Ghz chip, their machine had the nicer T2250 1.73Ghz installed, I checked my computer as soon as I started it up. Sure enough, Vista said I had the T2250. With the mystery around the budget T2060 chip (which kind of came out of nowhere) I'm still wondering if I really have the better chip or whether the T2060 is simply from a bad batch of T2250 chips and Vista is confused. I figure if some people do have the T2060 reported, there may really have been an unreported upgrade. Not that big of a deal, but I am kind of curious about this.

 

when i got mine i was playing with the display model at bestbuy and the t2060 was in it. but mine had the t2250. i see now there is a gateway mt3708 with a t2080 and 120 gig hdd. and gateways website how has mt3706 and mt3707 listed as retail notebooks. doesnt matter to though, i got mine for 600 at bestbuy and the mt3705 has been on sale for the better part of 2007 so im assuming that they were being cleared out of inventories for this years models. and the processor upgrades i cant explain but i like it, speed upgrade and l2 cache size is doubled for free, thats ok with me.

 

I have to say I am now offically a big fan of GATEWAY....

I bought the MT3707 at Bestbuy....which should have had the T2060, instead it has the T2300.

No doubt Intel is blowing these out because they have inventory of one and not the other.....But Gateway is passing this on to the customers free of charge....which is what a good company does.

I confirmed the ID with CPUID...so it really is a T2300

BTW are there any setting I need to change so as to insure I get the best output from this CPU?

I am voting for the T2250 in the survey

 

I don't have an MT3705, but mine is MT3707. I bought mine on bestbuy a couple of days ago for $599. On advertisement it says to have a pentium dual core T2060, but what I have on mine is a core duo T2300 1.66. I looked at the bios, on vista, and even downloaded the intel cpu id utility and it still says T2300. Thank you gateway!

 

Dual Core and Core duo is the same thing. Look it up.

 

Just wanted to post a quick update that it's not just Vista reporting this upgraded CPU. I've checked with multiple CPU tools which confirmed that my notebook has the T2250.

 

Ummm wrong.....hardly a Guru...with this logic a Celeron is a Pentium

Besides the smaller Cache the FSB is slower too vs a T2300.

The Intel Pentium Dual Core is a new brand of Intel Processor that first appeared in selected base model notebook computers from Dell,[4] Acer,[5] HP,[6] and Toshiba in early 2007. These processors are identified by the model numbers T2060 or T2080, indicating it is related to the Intel Core family of processors and may be a variant of the Intel Core T2050 chip. Early research reveals the processor to be similar to Core processors but with only a 1MB L2 Cache, whereas Core processors feature 2MB caches.[7]

It is not known why, after announcing the retirement of the Pentium brand name, Intel has brought it back, although Intel did announce possible plans to return the Pentium brand to the market as an alias for low cost Core 2 chips based on the Conroe-L architecture. The planned numbers for those processors to carry the Pentium brand were to be prefixed by the letter E, not T as the Pentium Dual Core uses.[8]

 

I bought it from BestBuy (Central NY) on Sunday 5/13...Have the T2060...See my reply to the other MT3705 today for specifics...

 

Hello Fellas,

Well I bought a Compaq V3239TU here in India.
The Box, specifications & sticker on the laptop says that it's pentium dual core T2060 but liek you all I Checked with CPUz it confirmed it to be a T2250. I thought that maybe CPUz in not uptodate (bal) so I got Intel processor Identification utility.. it too said that it's a T2250.

I guess it's more than mistake!!!! Cause our companies a diff u see..

Any1 2 shed some light on the issue..

& why don't companies say T2250??? It's better for them..

Secondly why do Label (stickers) on laptop say Pentium Dual core ??

 

Considering some people are still getting the T2060 in their machines, my guess is that Intel ran out of the T2060, either because of unexpected demand or production problems, and gave the various notebook manufacturers the T2250 temporarily as a replacement. If so, the notebook companies would still be planning on installing the T2060 longterm so they wouldn't change their advertising. Just a guess.

I definitely have the T2250 though - RMClock even shows that the CPU speed tops out at 1.73Ghz.

 

Just curious those of you that say you have the Core Duo T2250, what is the FBS running at, what's the cache, and what CPU ID tools are u using besides CPU-z? Thanks.

 

I have MX6453 specs said 160GB HDD @4200 Got 160GB HDD @5400 Thanks Gateway, as stated by many people parts shortages supply. It's cheaper to throw in a better component than change product line, no one ever complains about getting better for free!