Intel Pentium Dual Core E2140 2x1.60GHz 1MB Cache 800FSB £50.94 Delivered

Simian

It was £62 yesterday. Bargain.

steve1221

Anyone have a link for overclocking theses ?
I’ve o/c’d in the past but I’m getting no where with this one !!! I’m sure it’s something I’m missing to do with dual core’s but I’m damned if I can see what…

SmilingCrow

These 1MB cache chips are poor for gaming otherwise they look fine:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...m-e2160_6.html

cells

says £52.09 not £50.94

Archer

cells:
says £52.09 not £50.94

Too bad the deal has expired

melbourne720

SmilingCrow:
These 1MB cache chips are poor for gaming otherwise they look fine:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...m-e2160_6.html

Having used one of these, once overclocked I can assure you they are fine for gaming.

SmilingCrow

melbourne720:
Having used one of these, once overclocked I can assure you they are fine for gaming.

You're absolutely right, I should have said they are poor compared to the versions with larger L2 caches. Whether this is important will depend on your other hardware, the games you play and the resolution that you run them at.

bonzobanana

SmilingCrow:
You're absolutely right, I should have said they are poor compared to the versions with larger L2 caches. Whether this is important will depend on your other hardware, the games you play and the resolution that you run them at.

I don't really think they are poor for gaming because they are the most overclockable of all the dual cores with standard cooling and will overclock past the 10% gaming difference plus of course you benefit from faster desktop activities and serious stuff and save money too.

MDX

bonzobanana:
I don't really think they are poor for gaming because they are the most overclockable of all the dual cores with standard cooling and will overclock past the 10% gaming difference plus of course you benefit from faster desktop activities and serious stuff and save money too.

Have you not overclocked any of the Core2Duo's then yet ;)

imo they overclock better than this.

SmilingCrow

bonzobanana:
I don't really think they are poor for gaming because they are the most overclockable of all the dual cores with standard cooling and will overclock past the 10% gaming difference.

Read my second post; I said they are poor only when compared to the larger cache versions. The difference is more than 10% and will be still be there when you overclock as you can over-clock the larger cache chips as well.

dcx_badass

The Core 2 Duo's are NOT pentiums!

SmilingCrow

dcx_badass:
The Core 2 Duo's are NOT pentiums!

Correct. But the Pentium Dual Core E21xx series are Core 2 Duo variations; they are L2 steppings with half the cache disabled.

bonzobanana

I've got the E2160 which is meant to be 1.8ghz but I've overclocked it to 3.2ghz and its stable and it still runs cool. I will try it at 3.4ghz later. I've read that it runs cool because it only has 1meg cache and thought this was the reason why its so good to overclock. My system is an ultra cheapy too making use of the recent google checkout £10 off offer and using fairly low end components. I've not overclocked the memory chips yet though. They are still at 667mhz. My system is lightning fast and I've no complaints at all.

melbourne720

SmilingCrow:
You're absolutely right, I should have said they are poor compared to the versions with larger L2 caches. Whether this is important will depend on your other hardware, the games you play and the resolution that you run them at.

Depends on the games tbh. CPU intensive games like Supreme Commander and RTS such as Company of Heroes have a 5-10% difference in frame rates, clock for clock (both at 3GHz), when you compare an e2160 (1MB cache) Vs an E6600 (4mb cache).

Games such as Doom 3, FEAR, Far Cry, almost no difference. (I noticed no difference in FEAR in minimum, average or maximum frame rates).

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