Back in the Intel Pentium years, the Pentium processors are famous for high speed processing, until Intel hit the ceiling in the gigahertz race. Now that the Intel Core processors are at their second generation, you can still find Intel Pentium processors, albeit in the lowest budget bin.

Instead of killing off the Pentium brand and all the negative perceptions of the Netburst architecture, Intel is still keeping the Pentium processors, and has quietly launched four new Sandy Bridge chips under the Pentium brand name, with the codename G00/G800.

The G620 (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2.6 GHz), G840 (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2.8 GHz) and G850 (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2.9 GHz) are positioned as general processors, while the 2.2 GHz G620T (dual-core, 3MB cache) is a low-power option. Prices start at $64 (2.6 GHz) and end at $86 (2.9 GHz).

These processors run on the same LGA1155 platform used by the Sandy Bridge processors, and they are using the same 32nm Lithography processing too. All of them are dual-cores with no HT technology and no Turbo Boost Technology, but they do have the Intel HD Graphics embedded in them, which makes them possibly the best choice for super-low-end budget systems used as simple servers for SOHO.

SOURCE via Intel