Monday, August 10th 2009
Pentium E6500K Cracks 5.00 GHz Mark
Barely a week since its availability in the Chinese markets, Intel's Pentium Dual-Core E6500K processor that aims to be overclocker-friendly at a low-cost, set its first speed milestone, becoming one of the fastest Wolfdale-2M processors. Overclockers from IT168 community achieved 5.068 GHz on the processor. Details include a FSB multiplier of 24.0x (24 x 211.2 MHz), and a high vCore of 1.736V. The feat was conducted on an ASUS P5E3 Premium motherboard with 2x 1 GB of Corsair DDR3-1333 memory. The validation can be viewed here. This should give you a good idea of what to (or what not to) expect from this $89 chip.
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IT168
19 Comments on Pentium E6500K Cracks 5.00 GHz Mark
The average overclocker should do well with this chip too of course. I would like to buy one, pity I'm not chinese hey!
We E8 series users should give this chip the cold shoulder, this OC result seems pretty normal for the Wolfdale architecture, I think its had its day as for monster OCs, I mean it pretty much reached its peak with thE E8600 series release.
If you can afford an LN2 cooling solution, you can afford a Nehalem-EP/EX and get 24/7 silent.
But then reason and logic arent relevant to "record breakers".
OC was more fun when you took a great CPU even higher. But OC bottom end CPUs that cant even compete with their OC against their big brothers is like 2-stroke motorbikes pretending to be motogp superbikes.
Even an "old tech" Q6600/6700 gives you better performance per dollar.
Phenom II 955 pulls 4ghz easy without any crazy voltages 24/7, which is real good knowing its a quadcore with alot of cache on it.
+1
PS.
I think that if you put 1.736V on this CPU with air cooling , it will die in minutes at 5GHz under 100% load.