Just sharing a CPU-Z of Intel Core 2 Duo E4300

[Phosphate]

the link I posted have some shops stating that it will be available on january 4th! that would be awesome!

Jan 4th would be nice. The date I saw was January 21st for the e4300 release.

P.S. Apparently these are 800 FSB but apparently they will do FSB 1066 on stock voltage...LOL.

Hopefully the max CPU frequency is similar to the e6300/e6400 because not only do you get a 9x multipier but supposedly this CPU will be $20 less than the E6300

[Demo]

Nice results, If this e4300 could always do 400fsb 9x or 8x with 1.450 ~1.500 volts then its a really good buy!

[ownage]

e4300 dutch shops

Allready listed

[death metal]

Here's the final update:

CPU-Z Validation: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=149868


A friend sent me a review link over at XTreview for those looking for benchmarks and performance score: http://xtreview.com/review161.htm

[Demo]

still at 1.500 volts?

[Hutch]

103% oc, now that's just terrible

I bet these chips have a lot more left in them too. I'm assuming this was done on water at best. I wish intel did stay with the 800mhz FSB when they went to allendale, we'd have even better oc's with them.

This chip is gonna be the chip where we are going to see some ridiculous overclocks. I'm gonna say 150% oc atleast on a P965 board or a nvidia 6-- board with Ln2/D.I/Phase + extreme voltage.

[Phosphate]

I saw a post somewhere else speculating that these were just E6600 (or E6700 in the case of the E4400) that had 2 MB of their Cache damaged and therefore disabled. To me this means they should OC just like any other E6600.

The disabled L2 cache theory may be true when you consider these are true Conroes (not Allendales)

I'm not sure how VT or VPro work but if one of the 2 MB caches was disables I would assume that would make VT unusable as well.

[ziddey]

Anyone else notice something interesting about the stock screenie?

To OP, I know you said you're done with this thread (which got fueled almost solely by other posters haha), did you have c1/eist speedstep disabled in bios? I wonder this because cpuz showing no range for cpu. This makes sense if you have eist disabled, but otherwise, I don't know how comfortable I am with 9x. I mean sure it's great in that you should be in 1066 strap all the time, but there's always that nasty hole in the upper 300's that could really hamper a max oc when on 9x since 9x400=3600, and sometimes it's just a whole lot easier to achieve 8x450=3600 or possibly 7x514=3600 where the strap change performance penalty gets easily negated by supreme fsb.

[death metal]

Demo, 1.6v.

Hutch, this is on stock cooler.

Phospate, imo, Chipzilla have a different wafer for this CPU so it's really designed to have a 2MB L2 cache. I can't be sure though.

ziddey, the stock screenie and even the OCed screenie doesn't show the 6-9 multi range since I only used the CPU-Z validation website's generated image rather than an F5 or Alt-Prt-Screen in Windows. I thought that this is a pretty obvious image generated by the validation site since all the fonts, and color schemes are the same compared to other CPU-Z generated screenie from other submissions. In any case, I never disabled anything on the BIOS such as C1E or EIST.

As for other combo of multi and FSB, that is not my goal. I have posted it on my blog. Anyway, I can't do much above 415FSB because I am limited by my RAM. If you haven't noticed, I am using a DDR2-533MHz Micron memory. Asking it to work at DDR2-800MHz@CL4 with 2.3v is good enough for me. I don't want to pump any higher than 2.3v vDIMM since it's very hard to get this kind of RAM should I kill this. Besides, I don't expect the board to go higher than 415FSB without hardmod anyway or replacing the stock NB cooler.

[ziddey]

Ah thanks for clarifying. I didn't know the cpuz validation pics didn't show possible multiplier ranges

[Phosphate]

A friend sent me a review link over at XTreview for those looking for benchmarks and performance score: http://xtreview.com/review161.htm

They got 2.93 Ghz with stock HSF and stock Voltage....not bad.

The only thing that bothers me is the reduced amount of "caps" on the back of the e4300--->http://xtreview.com/images/photo.jpg ...We shall see how good this one Oc's

[death metal]

Ah thanks for clarifying. I didn't know the cpuz validation pics didn't show possible multiplier ranges

No prob. I'll try to post a CPU-Z Windows screenie

[erwinz]

thanks for sharing DM..

only days to go till these baby hit the market..

[JDizzle]

I've been seeing most places saying January 14th is the release date for these. I can't wait to get my hands on one.

[death metal]

I have seen in an earlier post about some time in January (for availability), the site points to a German site. I don't understand German so I can't be certain

[engenheiro_ce]

this processor is realy the best buy... and next processor (a new version of E6400) with 4MB L2 will be better!!

[FischOderAal]

I wonder why so many shops here in Germany list it as in stock, or available on 5th January. but the launch is on 21. January

furthermore, the price is to high... it's nearly the same as the E6300

[Rudyn]

Ohh man.. I really want this cpu for my budget system. Please hurry up Intel and release the damn small beast already

[775911]

furthermore, the price is to high... it's nearly the same as the E6300

Thats what I thought! So I brought a second hand 6400 for a decent price because I figured it wasnt worth waiting just to pay a similar price for a new one of these. I'll still be interested how you lot go with it

[FischOderAal]

I think the price is high because the demand is higher than the availability. when the first "run" is over I guess the prices will drop to about 130€/$, which will be a great deal.

[Silvermirage]

holy Schize!

Amazing proc for the price. Probably going to be nice for HTPC's and OCing.

Just curious. Could you try undervolting? What is the lowest you can get at stock speeds?

[Phosphate]

So when is this CPU going to be available? Is it any time before January 21st?

[ziddey]

Man I'm stuck between a rock and a hard spot. Just exploded my e6400. Can't decide whether to buy another e6400 or to wait out for the e4300. I don't feel comfortable enough with e6300 because of dubious motherboard and uncertainty in high fsb required. Kind of disappointed too since I got a steal on a e6400 retail for $190 off ebay nib.

[death metal]

Guys, a new review is posted at XbitLabs

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...duo-e4300.html

[Silvermirage]

Guys, a new review is posted at XbitLabs

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...duo-e4300.html

Wow. Smoking review. The sample Xbit had wasn't as good, but no doubt this will be the easiest way to get into the 100% OC club. Just a little water cooling should do the trick!