Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Sample Preview

MojoKid writes "Intel took the wraps off a new Core 2 Duo desktop chip today, dubbed the E6750. Though this chip shares the same basic clock speed as the Core 2 Duo E6700 at 2.66GHz, this new processor also runs on a faster 1,333MHz Front Side Bus. The new chip's additional bus bandwidth affords it up to a 5% performance advantage over standard 1066MHz FSB-based Core 2 chips. However, what's perhaps more promising is this new chip's overclocking head-room of up to 3.92GH and beyond on standard air cooling."

what...

[cosmocain]

....a coincidence: the overclocking article is from ->hothardware. yeah. i truly believe, that an ordinary aircooling and a C2D at 3.92GHz have really earned an article on a domain called like that.

Megahertz myth

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought we had finally put the "megahertz myth" behind us. But no, here we are again cheering on Intel for producing chips with their many megahertzes and gigahertzes.

We should lean on them to use a more sensible naming convention. AMD has led the way in this area. Consumers are much better served with descriptive product names such as, for example, "Turion 64 X2 TL56", rather than some arbitrary clock speed designations.

WHOA *jaw drops*

[Tama00]

This is like sex, except im having it!

Overclocking...

[stox]

the reason some people measure the MTBF of their systems in weeks instead of years.

Hi there! Let me introduce...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the ",". It's pronounced "comma", and comes in very handy sometimes.

Thanks.

Re:All on one page

[muszek]

If you knew how much effort they put into creating those cute 11 pages, you wouldn't have rushed to destroy everything.

Re:Megahertz myth

[clickclickdrone]

>56 - Dunno.
That's the percentage of performance compared to the Intel equivelent i.e the Turion is 56% the speed of an Intel equivelent.

Re:Megahertz myth

[clickclickdrone]

How do you define "whoosh"?

Re:Hi there! Let me introduce...

[Plutonite]

When you are overclocking for 5% performance gains on synthetic benchmarks there is no time for commas.