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Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 and E6700 Overclocking

Published August 31, 2006
By Steven Walton

Test System & Memory Performance

Test System Specifications
- Intel Pentium D 950
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86GHz)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (3.03GHz)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (3.66GHz)

- Corsair PC2-8500 Pro 2GB DDR2

- ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (Intel 975X)

- Seagate 250GB 7200RPM (Serial ATA II)

- ASUS Radeon X1900XT 512MB

Software
- Microsoft Windows XP Pro (SP2) 32-bit
- ATI Catalyst 6.6
- Intel System Drivers 7.2.2

The E6300 processor produced roughly 33% more memory bandwidth once overclocked. The overclocked E6700 produced similar margins, gaining 35% more bandwidth. The overclocked E6700 offered just 5% more memory bandwidth when compared to the overclocked E6300 configuration in SiSoft2007. The 3.66GHz frequency of the E6700 came into play once the MemTach results were in. The Analyze 1 results for example, favored the overclocked E6700 by 28% when compared to the overclocked E6300.