Intel Core 2 Duo E4300: Affordable and Highly Overclockable
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 10, 2007 2:45 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
3D Rendering Performance
3dsmax 8 performance continues the performance trends we've seen; at default speeds the E4300 is slightly outperformed (2.5%) by the E6300, while it is around 14% faster than the Athlon 64 X2 3800+. Performance standings change a bit under Cinebench where AMD does better, with the X2 3800+ and E4300 offering similar performance.
With 3D rendering depending largely on raw CPU speed, it's not surprising to see the overclock help out even more in these two benchmarks. The overclocked E4300 is 14-16% faster than the X6800, with a clock speed advantage of 15%. Larger caches and faster bus speeds only have a minimal impact here.
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clairvoyant129 - Friday, January 12, 2007 - link
Look again, the E4300 frags the X2 4200+bob4432 - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
i just need to keep on saying to myself, i don't need to upgrade, i don't need to upgrade, i don't need to upgrade.......man, what a good time for people that are builing though, intel sure is putting as much of the smackdown on amd (currently running amd so i am not partial to either, just my wallet) as they can.
when this thing drops to $133, it will be so tempting....hoping ddr2 will drop soon!!!!!
kmmatney - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
How far can you overclock the 4300 with a DDR motherboard, so I can use the 2GB I already have? With the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA LGA 775, which usually can get to 312 MhZ FSB, you should be able to get to 2.8 Ghz, which isn't too bad. Are there any better options out there that allow you to use DDR?dm - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
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I believe this article has the prices wrong. According to the recent Intel news release, the E4300 price will be reduced to $113 in Q2, when the E4400 is released at $133.atenza - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
Well, you're right! There's a mistake in the article.docmilo - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
I bought a cheap mb/cpu combo to get into dual core some time ago. I currently am running an 805 Pentium D in an ECS board, RC410L/800-M. I run great overclocked to 3.4 ghz from stock 2.66. This chip is only at 533 fsb. CPU-Z shows the fsb at 1500 to get this speed. I think this testing should have been done on a mb with a max 800fsb since I believe this chip is for that type of mb.What kind of OC should I expect on an 800mhz fsb motherboard?
atenza - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
Your mobo doesn't support Core 2 at all. Some improved voltage regulator is needed, having socket 775 is not enough.GeekUSA - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
Does anyone know where I can get the program that overclocks these beautiful chips?Thank You.
Toebot - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
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