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The E6xxx series offer great value for money and are a favourite choice amongst overclockers with reports of overclocks well over 3.2GHz already achieved with just basic air cooling. Intel is set to take back the performance crown for 2006 and 2007 again!


Err.. there not out yet..

 

[Usual Suspect]

my point was... no one has had a retail version yet. Only what Intel has given them. Your not gunna get intel sending out poor un-overclockable test subjects on a product that there putting everything into to take AMD's crown after so many years at the bottom.

 

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You really think Intel test every ES chip for overclock ability, if so you are having a laugh.

They send out thousands of CPU's to everyone from Trade Show samples, Review samples, and then there is the biggest candidates the hardware vendors, motherboard manufacturers etc.

You can pretty much guarantee that retail chips will overclock the same as if not better than an ES (not acounting for CPU's that are multi unlcoked).

Err.. yeah multi national coperations would never do a little bit of 'work' to boost a multi billion dollar product. doh

 

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You really think Intel test every ES chip for overclock ability, if so you are having a laugh.

btw Yes they do. Every chip is tested on the line. Most series of chips are made on the exact same manufacturers line .. they then get tested and stamped at what speed they are capable of. That is the one and only reason that overclocking cpus is possible. They cant just lock each chip to its highest speed, they produce the chips they need as with supply and demand. So some chips will be locked at slower speeds than they are capable of as they need more of the Cheaper/slow cpus to sell. So ** E6600 could quite possibly be able to reach E6700 speeds with no proble at all.

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