CPU/Mobo E7200: Penryn on budget

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The upcoming Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 looks to be a price versus performance winner from what we can tell from the time spent with our early sample. If the rumored price of $133 is correct and the retail versions overclock like ours did then this will be hands down one of the hottest dual-core processors this summer. Intel has perfected the 45nm process and every new processor series they release based on it exceeds our expectations. The Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 is one of those processors.

When it came to performance, the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 at default clock speeds was not hands down faster than the Intel Core 2 Duo E6750, but we'd pick the E7200 over it any day since it can be overclocked up to a 1333MHz FSB with just a single BIOS setting adjustment. Factor in overclocking beyond that and you have a price versus performance winner as overclocks over 50 percent are hard to ignore.

Intel informed us that the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 is a 65W part, but it seems like it might actually be less. Our power consumption numbers showed that the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 used significantly less power than the Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 and performed nearly the same in the majority of our benchmarks. With less power consumption the processor puts off less heat, so another thumbs up for the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200.

With nothing bad to say about the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 and a rumored price at launch of $133, this is a value if we've seen one.
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Legit Reviews - Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Processor Review - The $133 Wolfdale Arrives - Core 2 Duo E7200
 
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Too bad ,this news is too late for me.
I already upgraded my proccy to an E8400 last month and I must say I am quite happy with it as of now.

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^^Only difference is its got 6 mb cache i think, it wont make that much of a difference i think. It might not have VT,TXT as well
 
Hey when is this proccy arriving here in India i am buying a pc next month in the end by that time will it be here????!!!????
 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 and Core 2 Duo E7200 processors review at TechReport :

Intel's Core 2 Quad Q9300 processor - The Tech Report - Page 1

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Compared to the Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, the Q9300 has all-around higher performance, markedly superior power efficiency, and apparently—despite its locked upper multiplier—more overclocking headroom. Also, thanks to a slight bump in clock speed, a faster bus, and the architectural enhancements in the Penryn core, the Q9300 is easily an improvement over the Core 2 Quad Q6600 on all fronts.
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As for the Core 2 Duo E7200, well, once it arrives, AMD will be hard pressed to sell many Athlon 64 X2 processors priced above whatever its list price turns out to be. And if most E7200s overclock to 3.16GHz on a 1333MHz bus as easily as ours did, this thing may turn out to be a new enthusiast favorite.
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Overclocking

The stock voltage on our Q9300 was 1.2V. On the very first attempt, I raised the base FSB clock from 333MHz to 425MHz, and the Q9300 was stable—at 3187MHz, stock voltage. Some additional tinkering didn't yield much more. I managed to reach 3.26GHz on a 435MHz FSB by raising the Q9300's voltage to 1.225V. Beyond that, additional voltage didn't seem to help. After tweaking the memory a bit to match (1392MHz with 9-9-9-24 timings), I ran some benchmarks.
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Next up was the E7200. My first attempt, of course, was to reach a 1333MHz bus with the default 9.5X multiplier. The E7200 was more than happy to comply, booting into Windows and passing our Prime95 stability test effortlessly at 3.16GHz. This was, incidentally, at its stock voltage of 1.175V. Rather than stop there, I kept pushing, finally ending up at 3.372GHz with a 355MHz base FSB clock—at only 1.2V. I set the memory clock to 1182MHz with 8-9-9-24 timings for testing.

Both processors, then, reached beyond 3.2GHz without much drama. Going much past that proved difficult.
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