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Intel Core 2 Duo E4x00

Intel Core 2 Duo E4x00
Author: Aleksandr Chernoivan
Date: 02.05.2007

Tests

We ran the tests with the following hardware:

Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 (Intel P965 Express)
RAM
2x DDR2-800 1024 MB PQI PC6400
Cooler
Thermaltake Sonic Tower (CL-P0071) + Akasa AK-183-L2B 120 mm
Video Card
GigaByte GV-NX76T256D-RH GeForce 7600GT 256 MB
HDD
Samsung HD080HJ, 80 GB, SATA-300
Power supply unit
Chieftec CFT-500-A12S 500W, 120 m fan
Housing
Codegen M603-CA + 2x Akasa AK-183-L2B 120 mm
Operating system
Windows XP Pro SP2

Futuremark PCMark'05

The popular benchmarking suite PCMark'05 shows not only the expected superiority of Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 over Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 at computational tasks due to its higher clock speed but also some minor lag in other tasks.

CrystalMark

CrystalMark confirms the formerly produced results – therefore, at tasks which require faster computations a CPU of higher operating clock speed will be a bit faster, whereas at tasks of processing large amounts of data a processor having the faster bus may prove more powerful. We are verifying the theoretical inference through practice...

Archiving, min:s

For instance, data archiving packages are sensitive enough to the RAM exchange speed, and Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 finds itself to some more advantage at that.

LAME 3.98

Encoding video

But already at media data encoding it is the clock speed that proves to be more important, so Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 leaves Core 2 Duo E4300 and Core 2 Duo E6300 having approximately equal operating clock speeds behind.

Futuremark 3DMark'06

3DMark’06 forecasts some advantage of Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 at modern games as well, but Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 will nor lag behind.

SmartFPS.com v1.5

It turns out that once the overall performance is not restricted by the video card's performance, then Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 proves to be more efficient than Intel Core 2 Duo E6300.

Final words

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 is therefore the slowest Core 2 Duo processor to date, lagging behind the more expensive model and even Core 2 Duo E6300 by 5-10%. At the contest between Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 and Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, the winner is the former because at most tasks it has proved a bit more powerful with the price set lower. At the same time, Intel Virtualization Technology supported by Core 2 Duo E6300 remains unclaimed in most ways. Therefore, the choice is evident especially if you are into getting higher performance without paying extra.

We presume it's just these results which compelled Intel make a transposition in the Core 2 Duo E6xx0 product line through a release of Core 2 Duo E6320 and Core 2 Duo E6420 which offer twice as much of the L2 cache size with the clock speeds being the same. We hope that the hopefully early tests will tell if the move has proved reasonable...



We appreciate LLC "PF Servis (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) for the hardware presented for tests.

Content:

  • Page 1 - Intel Core 2 Duo E4300, E4400
  • Page 2 - Tests, final words




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