Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.67GHz desktop processor
Bargain?
Review Earlier this week, we reviewed the impressive yet ridiculously expensive Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850. Now it's the turn of another processor Intel announced this week, one that you can actually afford, the Core 2 Duo E6750.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
Intel's new 1333MHz frontside bus hasn't made a dramatic difference to the quad-core Extreme processor, but it's a step in the right direction. Or rather, it's yet another step in the right direction as the Core 2 steamroller continues to crush the AMD opposition. If you glance at our review of the MSI P35 Diamond motherboard with the 2.93GHz QX6800 and the 3GHz QX6850 installed, you'll see that the move to the 1333MHz FSB adds one or two percentage points of performance and you get a similar boost from the DDR 3 memory the board supports. However, DDR 3 costs so much more than common or garden DDR 2 that the small gain in performance it brings doesn't make economic sense.
The real shocker is that Intel's latests pricing plan makes some 1333MHz CPUs cheaper than 1066MHz parts.
At the upper end of the desktop processor market, this doesn't make a lot of odds, as the QX6800 costs £750 while the new QX6850 is £680, so both processors are beyond the reach of anyone on a normal income.
Move down the scale and we find the E6700 at £199, which is good value, but the new E6750 is listed on-line at £149, and that's a bargain. Both processors have the same 2.67GHz clock speed, 4MB of L2 cache but that £50 price differential clearly makes the 1333MHz FSB the way to go at upgrade time.
This is especially true if you can drop the E6750 into your current P965 motherboard in place of a slower Core 2 Duo or - God forbid - a single-core Pentium 4.
COMMENTS
Thermal Analysis Tool
I'm not taking the numbers as holy writ however I only ran the tool as I could feel the expelled air was cooler on E6750 than with E6700.
Had i said 'I think it runs cooler' I would fully expect readers to ask how much cooler. This may not be a full answer but I hope it's better than nothing.
your all wet
the e6700 and e6750 are overclocked chips it so happens
that it's OK to do that they can take it but I hate to see people
say this is a bug etc or it's the errata all chips have these things
get over it you would never know of it if they hadn't published
the information I am using one of those chips it's a delight
but when you increase the heat and the voltage you are going
to decrease stability and lifespan of all components live with it.
One other thing these chips will be much cheaper much sooner
than anything AMD ever made.
Intel Thermal Analysis Tool
My understanding is that this utility is only intended to be used with mobile CPUs. It cannot be relied upon to be accurate for other Intel products ( in fact, the consensus seems to be that it is way off).
Doesn't it seem like the faster bus *should* make more of a difference?
Seems to me that the faster bus should have a larger impact than it does (1 to 2%?)
So my question is, can we ID what the real bottleneck is, and maybe the next gen chip can address that?
Still Buggy?
So, have Intel sorted out any of the bugs in the Core Duo, some of which are "interesting" (for "interesting", read "errr ....I'll try something else, thanks")
http://www.geek.com/images/geeknews/2006Jan/core_duo_errata__2006_01_21__full.gif
