Like we said – the G0 stepping offers a lot of overclocking potential. Our E6750 went to 3.50 GHz without much effort, once again completing our Prim95 torture test without incident.
In order to achieve this overclock, we now had to tweak the core voltage a good deal more. The CPU only became stable at 3.50 GHz in Prime95 after we increased the core voltage by 0.0625 Volts to 1.41250 Volts.
Memory frequency increases further, reaching DDR2-876 at CL 4.0-4-4-12.
| CPU Frequency | 3.40 GHz (+31.6 %) |
| FSB | 413 MHz (1752 QDR) |
| Core Voltage | 1.41250 |
| Memory Multiplier | 2.00x |
| Memory Frequency | DDR2-876 (438 MHz) |
| Memory Latency | CL 4.0-4-4-12 |
Summary
- E6750 or Q6600 – Which is the better choice?
- The Processors – E6750 or Q6600?
- Processor – G0 Stepping is a must
- Motherboard – Gigabyte or MSI with P35 chipset
- Highlights of the MSI Board – Affordable, Heatpipe on Board
- Highlights of the Gigabyte Board – More Features
- GEIL Memory – An Overclocking Natural
- Cooler - Zalman's CNPS9700LED is Ideal
- Looking at the Bottom Line – CPU, Cooler, Board, and RAM
- Overclocking I – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.00 GHz
- Overclocking II – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.30 GHz
- Overclocking III – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.40 GHz
- Overclocking IV – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.50 GHz
- Overclocking V – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.60 GHz
- Overclocking I – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.00 GHz
- Overclocking II – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.20 GHz
- Overclocking III – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.30 GHz
- Overview of Core Voltages
- Power Consumption and Energy Cost – Less is more with Dual-Core
- Overclocking Yields 25 Percent Performance Increase
- Performance Winner – Q6600 Provides 5.3% More Performance
- Test Setup
- Software Configuration
- Benchmarks and Settings
- 3D-Games - UT2004, Prey
- 3D-Games - Quake 4, Warhammer
- 3D-Games - Supreme Commander, Serious Sam 2
- 3D-Rendering - Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio Max
- Applications - AVG, WinRAR
- Applications - Photoshop, PDF
- Applications - Deep Fritz
- Audio Encoding - iTunes, Lame
- Synthetic - Sandra CPU
- Synthetic - Sandra Memory
- Synthetic - Sandra Multimedia
- Synthetic - PC-Mark
- Synthetic - 3D-Mark
- Video Encoding - Xvid, Pinnacle Studio
- Video Encoding - Premiere, Mainconcept
- Video Encoding - HDTV, DivX
- Video Encoding - CloneDVD
- Conclusion - Intel Quad-Core and MSI P35 Neo2 get our Nod
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