Booting It Up
Booting up the Asus Z96 with the T7400 CPU installed gives a CPU uCode error, but can easily be bypassed by entering the BIOS and then quitting the BIOS without saving. Here’s what it looks like in the BIOS and in POST.
So far so good! CPU-Z and Everest report all the nice details of the T7400 CPU and the Asus Z96 laptop we are using to test on.
Compared to the older Core Duos, the new Core 2 Duo mobile processors have double the L2 cache.
The date is 7/28/2018 and im
The date is 7/28/2018 and im still using a Gateway CX210X I bought new back in the year 2007 to view this website and write this comment …. Over 10yrs later; i’ve upgraded to modern windows10 (this computer came with Xp!) and it still works fine for a mobile solution. I dare say this CPU is just as fast or faster than some modern ones. Intel did a really good job in over-building this thing. I have no issue with modern mobile workloads (about anything except gaming) at all. Feels like a slightly slower i3 to me.