Article: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6700 Preview (Fastest Non Extreme Money Can Buy)
(N=Newbie, E=Hardware Enthusiast, O=Overclocker, B=Budget)
IV. Stock Benchmarking
Stock Settings
For benchmarking, I will first run the system on stock settings. The stock settings will serve
as the baseline for comparison for the overclock score.
Note that all settings here are on automatic, with the RAM frequency running in sync with CPU system bus. With the advent of this new processor, the minimum speed of RAM to be used must be a DDR2-533MHz.
For the stock settings, all benchmark results will be acquired from three(3) runs, removing the highest and lowest score, but not averaging the total score of the three. This limit the number of random peaks of scores, and hopes to reduce the number of random unusual results. There will be no online submission of score because of time constraint and software limitation.
Temperature at idle hovers at 44C, while shoots to as high as 56c. Unless extreme overclocking is desired, the stock cooler will be more than to cool this baby. The motherboard is also known to read the temperature about 15c to 20c higher than comparable 3rd party motherboards.
::Multimedia Rendering::Cinebench 9.5
::Subsystem Test::
SuperPi 1M
PCMark02
PCMark05
Sandra-CPU
Sandra-Multimedia
Sandra-RAM Bandwidth
::3D Test::
3DMark03
3DMark05
3DMark06
::Gaming::
Doom3 640x480
There is no doubt about it, it is indeed the fastest non Extreme processor that money can buy. Make no mistake, this is not for the faint of heart, this processor is reserved only for those who have the heart, soul, and money to burn. And what's even more, they get super performance without the guilt of overclocking the processor. And with the ability to lower down the multiplier, a higher FSB can be attained just to reach it's stock clock frequency. Imagine, lowering the multiplier to even by 8 will need to have 332FSB just to hit the stock speed. Now lower it even more, and you get the idea.
PCMark05 shows almost an unreal muscle power, getting high marks, beating a lot of 500, 600, 800, and 900 series processors on stock settings alone. Gaming scores on 3DMark03 and 3DMark05 all shows consistent outstanding scores reflecting a huge portion of CPU muscle on the result. The score is almost unbelievable, Intel is not "bragging without thinking" when they say they are going to be releasing a CPU faster than the competition.
Cinebench is another wonder, video buff and multimedia fanatics will be rejoicing for such an unbelievable performance. If the dawn of dual core during its early incarnation is a blessing, the new uA is a big miracle. Truly worthy of all the praises, this CPU rocks big time.