Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Sample Preview 146
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."
Good marketing? (Score:5, Interesting)
Reviews of samples should stop talking about... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What I would like to see in hardware reviews (Score:5, Interesting)
Do people still overclock? It is such a focus on this in online hardware reviews, but none of the people I know still do it, even the gamers. Power consumption, heat and noise is much more important to them. Low sample number to draw any significant conclusions from, I know, but still... Perhaps the market has moved on a bit?
You're right, the hardware reviewers are getting out of date with their metrics.
Overclocking a modern CPU gets you mostly nothing nowadays. Gamers can still be found overclocking their *graphics cards*, but overclocking their Core 2 Duo's wouldn't really change anything for them (and I'm sure we'll reach a point where messing with your graphics card will be just as unnecessary as it is today with CPU-s, just this industry is younger than generic cpu).
I mean, on laptops one of the features is dynamically underclocking the CPU for less power usage. It's the kind of market we're in.
Multi-cores are lucrative area for servers, where no CPU amount is enough, and less so for desktops.
No wonder the companies are concentrating on features such as power usage: there's basically nothing else they can impress us with (and low power usage allows smaller more mobile devices with longer battery life etc.).
That's a lot of inductance (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:What I would like to see in hardware reviews (Score:3, Interesting)