Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 year of release. Voltage range VID

The Date The Product Was First Introduced.

Lithography.

Lithography Refers to the Semiconductor Technology Used to Manufacture An Integrated Circuit, and IS Reported in Nanometer (NM), IndicAtive of the Size of Features Built On the Semiconductor.

# Of Cores.

Cores IS A Hardware Term of Independent Central Processing Units in A Single Computing Component (Die or Chip).

# Of Threads.

A Thread, Or Thread of Execution, IS A Software Term for the Basic Ordered Sequence of Instructions That Can Be Passed Through or Processed by A Single CPU Core.

Processor Base Frequency

Processor Base Frequency describes the rate at which the processor "s transistors open and close. The processor base frequency is the operating point where TDP is defined. Frequency is typically measured in gigahertz (GHz), or billion cycles per second.

Cache.

CPU Cache IS An Area of \u200b\u200bFast Memory Located on the Processor. Intel® Smart Cache Refers to the Architecture That Allows All Cores to Dynamically Share Access to the Last Level Cache.

Bus Speed.

A Bus Is a Subsystem That Transfers Data Between Computer Components or Between Computers. TYPES INCLUDE FRONT-SIDE BUS (FSB), Which Carries Data Between The CPU and Memory Controller Hub; Direct Media Interface (DMI), Which is a Point-Point InterConnection Between An Integrated Memory Controller and An Intel I / O Controller Hub On The Computer's Motherboard; And Quick Path Interconnect (QPI), Which is a Point-to-Point Interconnect Between The CPU And The Integrated Memory Controller.

FSB PARITY.

FSB PARITY PROVIDES ERROR CHECKING ON DATA SETI ON THE FSB (FRONT SIDE BUS).

TDP.

Thermal Design Power (TDP) Represents The Average Power, In Watts, The Processor Dissipates When Operating At Base Frequency with All Coors Active Under An Intel-Defined, High-Complexity Workload. REFER TO DATASHEET FOR THERMAL SOLUTION REQUIEMENTS.

SCENARIO DESIGN POWER (SDP)

Scenario Design Power (SDP) IS An Additional Thermal Reference Point Meant to Represent Thermally Relevant Device Usage In Real-World Environmental Scenarios. IT Balances Performance and Power Requirements Across System Workloads to Represent Real-World Power Usage. Reference Product Technical Documentation for Full Power Specifications.

Vid Voltage Range.

Vid Voltage Range IS An Indicator of the Minimum and Maximum Voltage Values \u200b\u200bAt Which The Processor Is Designed to Operate. The Processor Communicates Vid to the VRM (Voltage Regulator Module), Which in Turn Delivers That Correct Voltage to the Processor.

Embedded Options Available

Embedded Options Available Indicates Products That Offer Extended Purchase Availability For Intelligent Systems and Embedded Solutions. Product Certification and Use Condition Applications Can Be Found In The Production Release Qualification (PRq) Report. See Your Intel Representative For Details.

Sockets Supported

The Socket Is The Component That Provides The Mechanical and Electrical Connections Between The Processor and Motherboard.

T Case.

Case Temperature Is The Maximum Temperature Allowed AT The Processor Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS).

Intel® TURBO BOOST TECHNOLOGY ‡

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology Dynamically Increases The Processor "S Frequency As Needed by Taking Advantage of Thermal and Power Headroom to Give You A Burst of Speed \u200b\u200bWhen You Need It, And Increased Energy Efficiency When You Don't.

INTEL® HYPER-THRAADING TECHNOLOGY ‡

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) Delivers Two Processing Threads Per Physical Core. Highly Threaded Applications Can Get More Work Done in Parallel, Completing Tasks Sooner.

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-X) ‡

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-X) Allows One Hardware Platform to Function AS Multiple "Virtual" Platforms. IT OFFERS IMPROVED MANAGEABILITY by LIMITING DOWNTIME AND MAINTAINING PRODUCTIVITY by Isolating Computing Activities Into Separate Partitions.

Intel® 64 ‡

Intel® 64 ARCHITECTURE DELIVERS 64-BIT Computing On Server, Workstation, Desktop and Mobile Platforms When Combined with Supporting Software.¹ Intel 64 Architecture Imprives Performance by Allowing Systems To Address More Than 4 Gb of Both Virtual and Physical Memory.

Instruction Set.

An Instruction Set Refers to the Basic Set Of Commands and Instructions That A MicroProcessor Understands and Can Carry Out. The Value Shown Represents Which Intel's Instruction Set This Processor Is Compatible with.

IDle States.

IDLE STATES (C-STATES) ARE Used to Save Power When The Processor Is Idle. C0 IS The Operational State, Meaning That The CPU Is Doing Useful Work. C1 IS THE FIRST IDLE STATE, C2 THE SECOND, AND SO ON, WHERE MORE POWER SAVING ACTIONS ARE TAKEN FOR NUMERICALLY HIGHER C-STATES.

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology

Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology IS An Advanced Means of Enabling High Performance While Meeting The Power-Conservation Needs of Mobile Systems. Conventional Intel Speedstep® Technology Switches Both Voltage and Frequency in Tandem Between High and Low Levels in Response to Processor Load. Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology Builds Upon That Architecture using Design Strategies such as Separation Between Voltage and Frequency Changes, and Clock Partitioning and Recovery.

Intel® Demand Based Switching

Intel® Demand Based. SWITCHING IS A POWER-MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY IN WHICH THE APPLIED VOLTAGESSOR ARE KEPT AT THE MINIMUM NECESSARY LEVELS UNTIL MORE PROCESSING POWER IS REQUIRED. This Technology Was Introduced AS Intel Speedstep® Technology in The Server Marketplace.

Intel® TRUSTED EXECTION TECHNOLOGY ‡

Intel® TRUSTED EXECTION TECHNOLOGY FOR SAFER COMPUTING IS A VERSATILE SET OF HARDWARE EXTENSIONS TO INTEL® PROSESSORS AND CHIPSETS TAAT ENHANCE THE DIGATAL OFFICE PATFORM WITH Security Capabilities such as Measured Launch and Protected Execution. It Enables An Environment Where Applications CAN RUN WITHIN THEIR OWN SPACE, PROTECTED FROM ALL OTHER SOFTWARE ON THE SYSTEM.

EXECUTE DISABLE BIT ‡

Execute Disable Bit Is a Hardware-Based Security Feature That Can Reduce Exposure to Viruses and Malicious Software from Executing and Propagating on The Server or Network.

After the release of the previous material about the new Intel processors, it took not so much time, so this article will be more logical to perceive not as an independent one, but as a kind of supplement. So it turned out that the processor Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 fell to our hands after the release of the first article. Of course, in itself, he is not very interesting because It differs from Core 2 Duo E6700 only by a multiplication coefficient (and, respectively, by 266 MHz less frequency). Of course, it would be much more interesting to test the E6300 / 6400 with the "Upolyn" cache, or even the youngest E4200 in the lineup, which also cut the tire to 800 MHz. Unfortunately, these CPUs have not yet reached us. Therefore, for the absence of the most desirable, we suggest you while reading another material on the topic "The performance of the new Intel architecture in widespread real tasks." Fortunately, the topic could not be bored - this is just the second material dedicated to it :). Hardware and Software

Configuration of test posted stands

CPU.	Mainboard.	Memory.
Athlon 64 FX-62	(BIOS 9.03)	Corsair CM2X1024-6400 (5-5-5-12)
Athlon 64 FX-60	EPOX EP-9NPA3 (BIOS 06.03.30)	Corsair CMX1024-3500LLPRO (2-3-2-6)

Alexey Shobanov

"Finally, the fact that we were waiting for so long!" It is such or similar in the sense of exclamations here is the third month of computer publications, devoting more and more new reviews and testing core processors 2 Duo, about whose exit company Intel announced in mid-July. The appearance of these chips built on the basis of the new Micro-Architecture Intel Core, without exaggeration, became the main event of the current year, which demonstrated to all that the "crisis of the genre" was overcome and all the problems associated with the previous microarchitecture Intel Netburst are behind. Naturally, I did not stay aside and our magazine - on his pages was published whole line Articles telling both the features of the architecture of new processors and chipsets and motherboards designed to work with them. But, unfortunately, until recently, we have failed to spend a direct comparison of new processors from Intel with solutions from their main competitor - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Moreover, AMD, anticipating Core 2 Duo, a little less than two months before the announcement of the new Intel architecture (May 23, 2006) introduced its new AM2 platform (as described in detail in detail on the pages of our magazine). It was the basis of the processors built by the AMD64 microarchitecture that has long and has long been familiar to us, but in this case having a built-in memory controller capable of maintaining the DDR2 SDRAM memory and made in a new form factor with the AM2 processor connector. Today, finally, we had the opportunity to reduce competitors face to face and evaluate their capabilities when performing a wide range of tasks. For comparison, we have chosen Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 and AMD AMD ATHLON 64 x2 5000+ processors, and then why: both models are about the same price. Thus, the AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ processor in the batches from a thousand pieces costs $ 301, and Intel E6600 - $ 316. In addition, today both chips occupy the same place in the model range of manufacturers companies, being the second model in the appropriate rules. . In tab. 1 shows some key characteristics of these chips.

Table 1. Characteristics of AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ and Intel Core 2 DUO E6600

CPU	AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual-Core	Intel Core 2 Duo
Frequency, MHC
System tire, frequency, MHz / Bottom, GB / C	HYPERTRANSPORT / 2000/8	Quad Pumped Bus / 1067 / 8.5
Number of Cores
Maximum temperature, ° С
L1 Cache instructions, KB
L1 Cache data, KB
L2 Cache, Krib
Energy Saving Technology	Cool'n'quiet.	Enhanced Intel Speed \u200b\u200bStep
SIMD instruction set
TechProcess
Processor connector

In order to compare the possibilities of these two processors, we took advantage of a number of specialized programs, as well as test scenes and scripts for popular applications, which allowed us to evaluate performance computer Systemsbased on these central processors when performing various tasks. Here are a list of used tests and applications:

• pC performance as a whole:

Crystal Mark 9.0;

• scientific calculations: Science Mark 2.0;
• audio encoding: LAME 3.98A;
• video encoding:

XMPEG 5.2 Beta + DivX Converter 6.2.5,

Windows Media Encoder 9,

TMPGENC 2.524,

MainConcept MPEG Encoder 1.51,

MainConcept H.264 Encoder v.2.0;

• office applications:

VERITEST BUSINESS WINSTONE 2004 V.1.0.1,

VERITEST BUSINESS WINSTONE 2004 MULTITASKING TEST V.1.0.1,

VERITEST MULTIMEDIA CONTENT CREATION 2004 V.1.0.1;

• archiving:

• gaming tests:

Doom 3 (Path 1.3),

Far Cry (Patch 1.33),

Quake 4 (Patch 1.05, SMP-Enable);

• working with 3D graphics:

Discreet 3DS MAX 7.0 (Specapc 3DS MAX 7 v.2.1.3 Script),

Alias \u200b\u200bWavefront Maya 6.5 (Specapc MAYA 6.5 V1.0 script);

Digital photo processing: Adobe Photoshop. CS2.

For testing two stands were collected:

• for AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ processor:

Motherboard - ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe (chipset - NVIDIA NFORCE 590 SLI),

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 with a capacity of 120 GB (ST3120827AS), NTFS file structure;

• for intel processor Core 2 Duo E6600:

Motherboard - ASUS P5B Deluxe (Chipset - Intel P965 Express),

Video card - Sapphire Radeon 1900 XTX,

System memory - 2xcorsair CM2X512-8500 in DDR2-800 SDRAM mode (total 1 GB), timings 4-4-4-12 (CAS Latency-Ras to Cas Delay-Row Precharge-Active to Precharge),

Hard disk - Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 with a capacity of 120 GB (ST3120827AS), NTFS file structure.

Testing was conducted under operating system Microsoft Windows. XP SP2 with ATI Catalyst 6.7 video driver installed.

Let us turn to the results obtained by us during testing (Table 2). According to the results of the synthetic tests of Futuremark PCMark 2005 and CrystalMark 9.0, allowing you to appreciate the work of individual subsystems of the computer system, we see that the performance of the processor subsystem and the configuration memory subsystem, which is based on the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor, 10-15% higher than At similar subsystems based on AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+. At the same time, podestes relating to other subsystems (disk and graphic) did not reveal any significant advantage of the Intel platform, except for the OPENGL test OGL Crystalmark 9.0, in which, however, the geometry with intensive loading is calculated. central processorTherefore, it is impossible to say that this is in its pure form of the graphics subsystem. Moreover, in two other tests on the schedule of the same test package - GDI and D2D - the platform on AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ had a tangible advantage compared to a competing solution. This situation has developed in podtes that assess the performance of the disk subsystem: According to the results of the HDD Futuremark PCMark 2005 test, for the computer system based on the AMD processor, it was the same for both computer systems, and the results of the HDD Crystalmark 9.0 test turned out to be 12% higher than for the platform Intel. From all this, you can make a very important conclusion: when you hold all subsequent tests, the difference in performance between compared configurations (if we are talking The fact that the transfer is on the side of the Intel platform) is determined primarily by the capabilities of the processor subsystem and bundle "Processor - Memory", since neither the graphic nor the disk subsystem has no advantage over the competing solution.

Table 2. Results of testing AMD AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ and Intel Core 2 DUO E6600

			AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+	Intel Core 2 Duo E6600	Difference (%)
Price, dollars
Futuremark PCMark 2005.
Science Mark 2.0.	Molecular Dynamics.
	Memory Benchmarks.
Audio encoding (LAME 3.98A), with
Video encoding
	Windows Media Encoder 9 (AVI -\u003e WMV), with
	TMPEGENC 2.524 (AVI -\u003e M2V + WAV), with
	MainConcept H.264 Encoder v.2.0 (AVI -\u003e MPG), with
	MainConcept MPEG Encoder v.1.51 (AVI -\u003e MPG), with
VERITEST BUSINESS WINSTONE 2004 V.1.0.1
VERITEST BUSINESS WINSTONE 2004 V.1.0.1 Multitasking Test
VERITEST MULTIMEDIA CONENT CREATION WINSTONE 2004 V.1.0.1
Archiving	7-zip 4.42 (size size 64 MB, word length 256 KB), with
	WinRar 3.51 (Compression Method: Normal), C
	HDR / SM 3.0 Score
Half-Life 2, resolution 1024x768
Doom 3 (Path 1.3), resolution 1024x768
Far Cry (Patch 1.33), resolution 1024x768
QUAKE 4 (Patch 1.05, SMP-Enable), resolution 1024x768
Discreet 3DS MAX 7.0 + Specapc 3DSMAX7 V.2.1.3 (Software Render)
ALIAS WAVEFRONT MAYA 6.5	(Specapc Maya 6.5 v1.0)
Adobe Photoshop CS2, with

In the queue, the SCIENCE MARK 2.0 utility test set, designed to estimate the performance of the system when performing scientific computing. By contacting the results of these tests, it is not difficult to note that when performing scientific calculations (Podtes of Molecular Dynamics, Primordia and Cryptography) The advantage of AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ looks very convincing. This result is quite explained, since it has long been known that operations with a floating point (on which all the calculations performed in this case are based) are the skate of AMD processors with the K8 generation core, as, however, and K7. Although in this case it is very curious that with a pure synthetic test on the execution of floating-point operations BLAS / FLOPS (calculating special matrices size from 64x64 to 1536x1536) The processor from Intel turns out to be faster!

Another set of tests, where the AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ processor managed to take the top over the Intel processor, became the VERITEST 2004 package, which simulates the work of the user with office applications (Veritest Business Winstone 2004 v.1.0.1), as well as the creation of the Internet CONTENT (VERITEST MULTIMEDIA CONENT CREATION WINSTONE 2004 V.1.0.1). It can be assumed that in this case a small advantage of the AMD platform is due to a slightly better operation of the disc subsystem and the larger processor clock frequency (2.6 versus 2.4 GHz at Intel Core 2 Duo E6600). At the same time in the multisascy test when working with office applications (VERITEST Business Winstone 2004 v.1.0.1 Multitasking Test) The Intel platform turns out to be more productive. Most likely one of the reasons for this has become more effective use Second-level cache (L2), which is general, and not individual for each of the nuclei (as implemented in the processors of the AMD Athlon 64 x2 family) and, moreover, has four times more (4 MBs against the total 1 MB of AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+).

On the coding tasks of video and audio files and archiving, the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor has proven to be much faster than the platform on AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ - its gain here was from 4.4 (MainConcept H.264 Encoder v.2.0) to 24, 5% (MainConcept MPEG Encoder v.1.51). Moreover, this advantage is achieved by the Intel processor no longer at the expense of a higher clock frequency, as it was with the NetBurst architecture processors, and due to the best organization of working with streaming data ...

And what about games? Until recently, the advantages of testing game applications remained unconditionally aMD processors. And it was on his field that the Advanced Micro Devices brainchild was for this time a crushing defeat. In all game tests, the first platform was the platform on the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, and the advantage was very significant on test scenes (from 21% in stage for Quake 4 to 38.8% for Half-Life 2).

In tests that evaluate the performance of the system when working in popular 3D-packages Discreet 3DS MAX 7.0 and Alias \u200b\u200bWavefront Maya 6.5, as is the execution of a script that imitating a digital photo processing user in Adobe Photoshop CS2, the advantage of the Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 processor over the competitor Also does not cause any doubt.

Thus, according to the results of this comparison, it is possible to state: new Duo 2 Core processors of Intel, built on the basis of the Intel Core microarchitecture, today are significantly superior to the level of performance of competitors, the only serious of which is Advanced Micro Devices. In addition, it can be said that the enemy in the face of AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+, who spoke in the role of the continuer of the glorious business of processors with AMD64 microarchitecture, was a bit of its weapon. So, by refusing the race at frequencies, the incarnation of which was the processors of the Intel Pentium 4 family with their microarchitecture Netburst, Intel made a bet in Intel Core to increase the number of operations performed for the batter and optimize computing. It is also interesting that the Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 bypasses its opponent not only in pure performance, but also in all its relative expressions: relative performance per unit cost and relative performance per unit of power. Recall that the TDP processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 is 65 W, and the level of power dissipation in AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ is 89 W. Directly compare these values, of course, not quite correctly, because to determine their company use different techniques, however, for some approximate comparison, they are quite suitable.

Product release date.

Lithography

Lithography Indicates semiconductor technology used for the production of integrated chip sets and the report is shown in a nanometer (NM), which indicates the size of the functions built into the semiconductor.

Number of Cores

Number of nuclei is the term hardwaredescribing the number of independent central processing modules in one computing component (crystal).

Number of streams

A stream or stream of execution is a software term denoting the basic orderly sequence of instructions that can be transmitted or treated with one CPU core.

Basic processor clock frequency

The basic processor frequency is the speed of opening / closing processor transistors. The base frequency of the processor is the operating point where the calculated power (TDP) is set. Frequency is measured in gigaherts (GHz) or billions of computing cycles per second.

Cache memory

Cool memory processor is a high-speed memory area located in the processor. Intel® Smart Cache's Intelligent Cache Memory Indicates an architecture that allows all the kernels to jointly dynamically use access to the lature cache.

System Tire Frequency

The tire is a subsystem transmitting data between computer components or between computers. As an example, you can call a system bus (FSB), which is exchanged between the processor and the memory controller block; DMI interface, which is a point-to-point connection between the intelled Intel memory controller and the Intel I / O controller block on the system board; And the Quick Path Interconnect interface (QPI) connecting the processor and the integrated memory controller.

The parity of the system tire

The parity of the system tire provides the ability to verify errors in the data sent to the FSB (System Bus).

Calculated power

Calculated thermal power (TDP) indicates the average performance in watts when the processor power is dissipated (when working with a base frequency, when all kernels are involved) under complex load, a specific Intel. Familiarize yourself with the requirements for thermoregulation systems presented in the technical description.

SCENARIO DESIGN POWER (SDP)

Max. Calculate Power is an additional reference point of thermoregulation, designed to use devices associated with high temperature, with the simulation of real operating conditions. It balances requirements for performance and power during workloads throughout the system, and provides the most powerful use of the world's use. Refer to the Technical Description of Products to get complete information about power specifications.

Voltage range VID

The VID voltage range is the indicator of the minimum and maximum voltage values \u200b\u200bon which the processor should work. The processor provides VID with VRM (Voltage Regulator Module), which, in turn, provides the correct voltage level for the processor.

Available options for embedded systems

Available options for embedded systems indicate products that provide extended acquisition for intelligent systems and embedded solutions. Product Specification and Terms of Use are presented in the PRODUCTION REPEASE Qualification (PRQ) report. Contact an Intel to get detailed information.

Supported connectors

The connector is called a component that provides mechanical and electrical connections between the processor and the motherboard.

T Case.

Critical temperature is the maximum temperature allowed in the processor integrated heat distributor (IHS).

Intel® TURBO BOOST ‡ Technology

Intel® Turbo Boost technology dynamically increases the processor frequency to the required level using the difference between the nominal and maximum values \u200b\u200bof the temperature and energy parameters, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of the power consumption or, if necessary, "dispersed" the processor.

INTEL® HYPER-THRAADING ‡ Technology

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) provides two processing streams for each physical core. Multi-threaded applications can perform more tasks in parallel, which significantly speeds up performance.

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-X) ‡

Intel® Virtualization technology for directional I / O (VT-X) allows one hardware platform to function as a few "virtual" platforms. The technology improves management capabilities, reducing downtime and maintaining productivity through the allocation of individual sections for computing operations.

Intel® 64 ‡ Architecture

Intel® 64 Architecture Combined with the appropriate software supports the operation of 64-bit applications on servers, workstations, desktops and laptops. The Intel® 64 architecture provides an increase in productivity, due to which computing systems can use more than 4 GB of virtual and physical memory. .

Set of commands

A set of commands contains basic commands and instructions that the microprocessor understands and can perform. The value shown indicates which set of Intel commands this processor is compatible.

Prohibition status

The idle status mode (or C-status) is used for energy saving when the processor is inactive. C0 means working condition, that is, the CPU in this moment Performs useful work. C1 is the first state of inaction, C2 - the second state of inaction, etc. The higher the numerical indicator of the C-state, the more the program performs the program on energy saving.

Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology (Improved Intel SpeedStep® Technology)

Intel SpeedStep® advanced technology allows you to provide high performance, as well as compliance with the requirements mobile systems to energy saving. Standard Intel Speedstep® technology allows you to switch the voltage and frequency level depending on the processor load. Intel SpeedStep® enhanced technology is built on the same architecture and uses such development strategies such as separation of voltage and frequency changes, as well as the distribution and restoration of the clock signal.

Intel® Demand Based Switching Technology

Intel® Demand Based Switching is a power management technology in which the applied voltage and clock frequency Microprocessor is held at the minimum required level until the computing power is required. This technology was presented on the server market called Intel Speedstep®.

Technology thermocontrol

Thermocontrol technologies protect the processor housing and a system from a failure due to overheating using several temperature control functions. The intracrystalline digital temperature sensor (Digital Thermal Sensor - DTS) determines the kernel temperature, and the temperature control function can reduce the power consumption of the processor, thereby reducing the temperature, to ensure work within normal performance.

New Intel® AES Commands

Intel® AES-NI commands (Intel® Aes New Instructions) are a set of commands that allows you to quickly and safely provide encryption and data decoding. The AES-NI commands can be used to solve a wide range of cryptographic tasks, for example, in applications providing group encryption, decoding, authentication, generation of random numbers and authenticated encryption.

Bit Performance is a hardware security function that reduces vulnerability to viruses and malicious CodaAnd also prevent malware and distribute it on the server or online.

The Core2 6600 processor, the price of the new on Amazon and eBay - 6,500 rubles, which is $ 112.

The number of kernels - 2, produced 65 nm technical process, CONROE architecture.

The basic frequency of the core2 6600 core - 2.4 GHz. The maximum frequency in Intel TURBO Boost mode reaches 1.45 GHz. Please note that the Intel Core2 6600 cooler must cool the processors with TDP at least 65 W at standard frequencies. When overclocking requirements rise.

The motherboard for Intel Core2 6600 must be with the PLGA775 socket. The power system must withstand processors with a thermal package of at least 65 W.

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The data is obtained from user tests that tested their systems both in acceleration and without. Thus, you see the averaged values \u200b\u200bcorresponding to the processor.

Numerical operations

For different tasks, different strengths of the CPU are required. The system with a small amount of fast nuclei is perfect for games, but will give way to a system with a large number of slow nuclei in the rendering scenario.

We believe that a processor with a minimum of 4 nuclei / 4 streams is suitable for the budget game computer. At the same time, individual games can load it 100% and slow down, and performing any tasks in the background will lead to FPS drawdown.

Ideally, the buyer should strive to minimize 6/6 or 6/12, but to take into account that systems with more than 16 threads are now applicable only in professional tasks.

The data is obtained from user tests that tested their systems both in acceleration (maximum value in the table) and without (minimum). A typical result is indicated in the middle, a position among all tested systems is indicated in the color strip.

Accessories

We collected a list of components that users most often choose, collecting a computer based on Core2 6600. Also with these components are achieved the best results in tests and stable operation.

The most popular config: motherboard for Intel Core2 6600 - ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO, video card - GeForce 6600 GT.

Characteristics

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Manufacturer	Intel
Description Information on the processor, taken from the official site of the manufacturer.	Intel® Core ™ 2 DUO Processor E6600 (4m Cache, 2.40 GHz, 1066 MHZ FSB)
Architecture Code name generation of microarchitecture.	CONROE.
Date of issue Month and year of the emergence of the processor on sale.	03-2015
Model Official name.	E6600.
Kernels Number of physical nuclei.	2
Threads Number of threads. The number of logical processor cores that the operating system sees.	2
Basic frequency Guaranteed frequency of all processor cores at maximum load. It depends on the productivity in single-threaded and multi-threaded applications, games. It is important to remember that the speed and frequency are not directly connected. For example, a new processor at a lesser frequency can be faster than old on more.	2.4 Ghz.
Turbo-regime frequency Maximum frequency of one core processor in turbo mode. Manufacturers allowed the processor to independently increase the frequency of one or more nuclei under the strong load, so that the speed of work increases. He strongly affects the speed in games and applications demanding to the CPU frequency.	1.45 Ghz.
Cash volume L3. The third-level cache works buffer between the operational memory of the computer and the CASH 2 of the level of the processor. Used by all nuclei, the speed of processing information depends on the volume.	4 MB
Instructions Allow you to accelerate the calculations, processing and execution of certain operations. Also, some games require support for instructions.	64-bit.
TechProcess The technological process of production is measured in nanometers. The smaller the technical process, the more advanced technology, below the heat dissipation and energy consumption.	65 Nm
Tire frequency The rate of data exchange with the system.	1066 MHz FSB.
Maximum TDP. Thermal Design Power is an indicator that defines the maximum heat dissipation. Cooler or water system Cooling should be calculated on an equal or greater value. Remember that with acceleration TDP grows significantly.	65 W.