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Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 - The Next Overclocking Wonder

By Vijay Anand - 15 Aug 2007

Results - SYSmark 2004

Results - SYSmark 2004

For overall productivity scores, the Pentium Dual-Core E2160 at 3.33GHz is about on par with the Core 2 Duo E6850 that's thrice its price. Peering in to the score details, the overclocked E2160 fared better in multimedia applications thanks to an increase in clock speeds but the reduced cache size took a hit in the core office productivity applications where the non-repetitive code nature and randomness of the tasks means more cache misses. That's where bigger caches can help to store more relevant data (predicted and non-predicted) closer to the cache. Nonetheless, the overclocked E2160 still put up a strong showing that's more than worth its dough.

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