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Page 2 of 8 Intel's E6300 CPU For around five years now, give or take a few moments of glory, AMD has been the CPU king. With Intel's Core 2 Duo the tables have turned, and Intel has truly produced a CPU that puts all others to shame. All the Core 2 Duo CPU's currently run on a 1066MHz bus (266MHz x 4) with clock speeds from 1.86GHz to 2.93GHz. The 2.93GHz part is the Extreme X6800 Edition. The only difference from this model and the others is clock speed and that fact it's unlocked.      Core 2 Duo Models: Intel Core 2 X6800 2.93GHz 4MB Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz 4MB Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz 4MB Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz 2MB Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz 2MB They all sport Intel's VT technology, use a 65nm process, and have 2-4MB L2 caches. Both cores are in one die unlike the Pentium D, and measure 143 mm^2 in size. The E6300 is cheapest 1.86GHz part and only has 2MB of L2 cache. However, tests have shown a small performance decrease because of this. With budget in mind, we went with this CPU, and by no means are we shortchanging ourselves. The Conroe core is used in the 4MB cache parts, while the Allendale core is used in the 2MB cache parts. |
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