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E4300 Allendale v E2200 and E5200

Guess what?







































It's arrived!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D

I am going to spend tomorrow finding out what it can do and will then bench it on Thursday which will probably run into Friday as it takes so long and is soooo boring. Results will be up at the weekend. The box is tiny, about half the size of the normal Intel dual cores. The reason being that it a half height cooler of a new design. The fan assembly on the top is the same but the cooler is a cross shape made of aluminium with a solid aluminium core. I will post some pics in my review. The cooler will not be used anyway as it's going under water for the tests and then under a Freezer 7 Pro in it's final destination, my second rig. Unless it beats my E6600 of course, but i can't see that happening. :D
 
pastymuncher said:
Guess what?

brilliant news Pastymuncher!!!!







































It's arrived!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D

I am going to spend tomorrow finding out what it can do and will then bench it on Thursday which will probably run into Friday as it takes so long and is soooo boring. Results will be up at the weekend. The box is tiny, about half the size of the normal Intel dual cores. The reason being that it a half height cooler of a new design. The fan assembly on the top is the same but the cooler is a cross shape made of aluminium with a solid aluminium core. I will post some pics in my review. The cooler will not be used anyway as it's going under water for the tests and then under a Freezer 7 Pro in it's final destination, my second rig. Unless it beats my E6600 of course, but i can't see that happening. :D
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That should have said brilliant news here!!!
 
I have done the benchies at stock and 3Ghz so far today. Just got the 3.6Ghz and the max clock ones to do. Having a break for a bit as it is so boring doing all these benchies. Some interesting results so far but you will have to wait until i finish to find out. :D

One thing i will say is at stock the low fsb is holding it back big time compared to the other cpu's at 2.4Ghz (9x266). Drop the multiplier from 12.5 to 9x and increase the fsb to 278 for the same 2.5Ghz and it really flies. I have no way of knowing the temps though. Core temp and real temp don't seem to work with the E5200. Both say 32 degrees for idle and load. That's with the latest versions too. TAT does'nt work at all. Anyway, it does at least 3.33Ghz on stock (1.20v) volts which is quite promising. Whether i hit the magic 4Ghz or not we will have to wait and see. :D:D:D
 
I didn't know that about FSBs. Does that mean that if I cut my multi on myy E4500 from 11 to 9 but keep it at 3ghz I should get better performance?
 
Completed all the benchies. Just trying to find the max stable clock now but it will not be 4Ghz. 1.4v vcore is the most that i will give it. I learnt my lesson with my E8500. It boots into windows and i can run most of the benchies but will not prime for more than 30 mins. So because it's not prime stable i am not counting it. More voltage would probably do it but it's not going to happen with me. Same goes for the E4300 and E6600. They will boot into windows at 3.6Ghz (100% overclock) and 4Ghz respectively but because they are not prime stable i am not counting them.

Regarding the fsb bit. I did the benchies at stock (12.5x200), 3Ghz (12.5x240) and 3.6Ghz (12.5x280). By dropping the multiplier to 9x and upping the fsb to 266mhz for 2.4Ghz it also allows you to run the ram faster. This delivered higher scores than it did clocked at 2.5Ghz. The same applies for the other speeds too. 3.6Ghz (12.5x280) and the same speed at 11x327 are very different. Using the 11x multiplier i could run the ram a lot faster than using the 12.5x multiplier, 1067mhz opposed to 960mhz. Doing this increased the scores by a lot, especially in Nuclear MC, Super PI and Cinebench which were already very impressive. By increasing the available bandwidth you increase the performance. It makes a big difference with quads as they are so bandwidth hungry. That's why i used to run my Q6600 at 8x450 instead of 9x400. I have not included these scores in my tests as the same could be said about the other cpu's and i have'nt played around with their multipliers so it would'nt be fair.

Hope to get the results up tomorrow some time. Just got to work out now how to put them all together so that you can make some sense of them. I have 4 pages of A4 full of scores. Not long to wait now. :D
 
Monkey Puzzle said:
What voltages were you using to get 3.6 or thereabouts with the 4300?
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3.4Ghz is stable with 1.475v. 3.6Ghz required 1.5v but no matter what i did i could not get it prime stable. It's a shame because i don't think it was far off being stable. I even tried more volts but it just did'nt make a difference.
 
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