![]() Thus no extra costs are incurred in our overclocking process. As such, overclocking the Pentium Dual-Core E2160 should be easier as well as a less expensive affair than with the E2140.Īs usual, we set out to find out what kind of overclocking headroom one can get with just air-cooling and by using the default CPU cooler. With the very small price delta between the Pentium Dual-Core E2160 and E2140, we preferred showcasing the former model for the following reasons: it is a 1.8GHz processor, similar to the Core 2 Duo E6300 model that we first overclocked a year ago, the higher 9x processor multiplier allows speedier CPU core clock increase when stepping up the FSB ladder than the E2140's 8x multiplier and thus negating the need of an overclocking-class motherboard as well as not needing high speed memory. We'll leave you to find that out in our results segment coming up shortly. So the burning question is of course the impact of the measly L2 cache. Compared against the highly popular Core 2 Duo E6320 (the E6300's replacement at US$163), the Pentium Dual-Core E2140 / 2160 processors are 50% less expensive (US$70 and US$84 respectively) and the only differences are the slower 800MHz FSB operation and the 1MB L2 cache. And with less L2 cache, this directly correlates to a nice price cut. ![]() ![]() Overclocking the E2160 Overclocking the E2160Īs we highlighted earlier, what makes the Pentium Dual-Core E2xxx series so appealing is that this L2 cache constrained processor takes on all of the charming traits of the Core 2 Duo processors with the same processor microarchitecture. ![]()
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