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Intel Core 2 Duo E4300

JC 10.01.2007 - 09:57 1176 6
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The best part of it all is that the E4300 is a no-compromise core; you end up losing VT support, but all of the performance elements are there. The 800MHz FSB isn’t crippling enough to really hinder performance, and the smaller cache is more than acceptable for the vast majority of applications. The Core 2 Duo E4300 is no Celeron, if anything it’s a spiritual successor to a long line of attractive, highly overclockable Intel CPUs. It’s everything Intel’s Pentium D 820 was, but with much higher performance and a much lower power envelope.

At default speeds, the E4300 isn't all that impressive in the grand scheme of things; it's effectively a cheaper, slightly slower E6300. But much like the E6300, much of the appeal of the E4300 comes from overclocking - and overclock it does. Compared to other Core 2 CPUs, the E4300 doesn't set any new overclocking records but at the price it's a true bargain.

At stock speeds, the E4300 ends up offering similar performance to the Athlon 64 X2 3800+. In SYSMark 2004SE, DivX and some games it’s faster, and in other situations it’s basically the same speed. Obviously the Core 2 upgrade path is a bit more desirable these days than AMD’s Socket-AM2 platform, so the E4300 gets the nod there, but you can’t really go wrong with either chip at default settings. When overclocked things get a little more complicated, but the E4300 tends to get the recommendation as a 2.8 - 3.0GHz Athlon 64 still ends up being slower than a 3.38GHz Core 2.

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Performance of the Core 2 Duo E4300 isn't that impressive as that of the senior models of the series. Although it differs by only 3-5% from the Core 2 Duo E6300, rarely the new CPU is slower than the Pentium D 945 and Athlon 64 X2 4200+, which cost about the same money, in some benchmarks. But there are few such benchmarks and the new CPU is far more economical than any of its opponents.

The Core 2 Duo E4300 is also a gift for overclockers since it doesn't require special overclocker-friendly components and has an affordable price. But to all appearances, Allendale-based CPUs won't reach as high frequencies at overclocking as Conroe-based CPUs do.

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also doch nicht unbedingt "overclocker´s dream".

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Ich bin auch etwas enttäuscht, aber was solls. Ich hole ihn mir trotzdem. Für kleines Geld bekommt man trotzdem eine gute CPU.

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naja, vielleicht beschränkt sich das ja nur auf die ersten cpus und kommende gehen vielleicht besser zu takten.

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Grund dafür ist ja der Allendale Core. Meinst, dass sich an dem so schnell was ändert?

Ich werd mir jedenfalls gleich nachdems großflächig verfügbar sind einen holen. Auf das VT kann man ja auch leicht verzichten.

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Hmm... Also 2,97GHz ohne vcore-Erhöhung ist ja schonmal definitiv gut. Mal davon abgesehen, sind auch die 3,47GHz nicht schlecht. Klar ist es kein Rekord, aber man muss auch bedenken, dass es E6x00 gibt, die sogar schlechter zu takten gehen. Ausserdem wird das von CPU zu CPU auch variieren. Ich bin mir sicher dass es E4300 geben wird, die diese Werte auch noch übertreffen können.

Für schlechte OC Mainboards kann eigentlich nur zum E4300 geraten werden, weil sich diese dann bestimmt höher takten lassen, da hier ja der FSB des Mainboards der limitierende Faktor sein wird.
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