Intel Core 2 Duo E4300: Affordable and Highly Overclockable
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 10, 2007 2:45 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Encoding Performance
At default clock speeds, the Core 2 Duo E4300 completed our DivX test in the same amount of time as AMD's Athlon 64 X2 5000+. Overclocked, the E4300 has a 11% advantage over the X6800.
Windows Media Encoder is far more favorable to AMD CPUs and thus the E4300 ends up being a little slower than the X2 4200+. Our overclocked chip ends up, once again, on top of the charts.
MP3 encoding performance is quite competitive, with the E4300 offering performance similar to the X2 4600+ and the E6300. Overclocked performance is once again competitive with the X6800.
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hubajube - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
Nice OC and I might consider this instead of a E6400. I'll have to wait how the 4MB versions stack up. Also, I'd like to see how it OC's on a Nvidia chipset board. No DS3 for me.tuteja1986 - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
SameIntelUser2000 - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
The 4MB cache and faster FSB is good for performance, but also for raising stock performance from Intel's point of view. The extra cache and more bandwidth enables Core 2 Duo to scale better than the ones that don't. I would like to see E4300 at 800MHz FSB and clocked to say even E6600 speeds to see how it scales but I am expecting too much :P.E4300 at 3.38GHz has an FSB of 1500MHz, which is 40% more than the stock X6800.
IntelUser2000 - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
From the idle power consumption measurements, it seems to use the new Core 2 Duo steppings that has C1E power consumption of 12W. You can see 8W difference from the normal Core 2 Duos, which are at 20W-22W(20W for E6700 and 22W for others).Goty - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
Yeah, but that doesn't matter to 99% of the desktop consumer market. Most only care about power consumption at full load as it is usually a good indication of heat output.hubajube - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
The only people that care about power consumption are geeks and corporate IT departments. Joe SixPack doesn't know and doesn't care. All they want is a machine that does email, stores porn, and surfs the web. You guys need to get out more often.Xentropy - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - link
You can be sure even Joe SixPack will notice if turning on his PC sounds like a jet engine starting up, though, and higher power consumption means louder cooling solutions.hubajube - Thursday, January 11, 2007 - link
J6P still won't notice because they usually buy low rent Dell's and HP's not, custom built jobs like we have. Like I said, power consumption means nothing to regular computer buyers.