People have bought Intel for a number of reasons, for an upgrade to the newer Intel Core 2 Duo’s for their improved speed and over-clock ability with the help of the 45nm architecture a higher yield. With the old Conroe 65nm chips more used in the market like Dell and HP like the use of the famous Q6600 as their industry standard, Intel tries to sway the market to the 45nm with the Penryn enhancements.
The Intel E7200
The newer cheaper version of the Intel range is a good option for a cheap system for about $1,000. The E4000 series is the 65nm Conroe version can be bought for about less than $100, for a bargain of a price, but the performance, reliability and over-clock ability is being is second priority, which explains the lower pricing.
For the 45nm architecture you got the E8000 and the enthusiast the Q and QX9000 series, and then you get the lower number count, the E7000 for a low cost Penryn CPU. With the only product line the E7200 with the FSB of 1066MHz with the same frequency of the Q6000 and the E6000, and a core frequency of 2.6GHz. They left out, the Hafnium for the heat dispense and also less transistor count, in other words it has less processing power to a E8400 or a E8500, but good overall cheap ass value.
The test
The E7200 has a good deal to be a new low cost version of the Intel series, only going to $130 or less will be the mark the older sibling the E4000. With the SISoftsandra in the processor arithmetic, went much better to the E4200 with the help of newer 45nm to the 65nm, for about 15000 points in both tests, and to go against the E8200 that has a price tag of $300, and beating it in gaming and raw performance, makes it a good performer, and then gets stuck to the E8400 and the E8500 with the higher frequency and also higher caching of the difference of 4MB, more data transfer to the board and to the CPU.
Overclockability and stability and The End
For it to be a low cost processor, I should hold out for about few frequencies higher to its stock frequency of about 2.6GHz or 2.56GHz, but for the overclockability on two methods, by how much in the water to an air cooling, firstly to a OEM air cooler you can go to 3.4GHz with the voltage a bit higher will be stable enough in one try on SISoftsandra and on water cooling about roughly 3.5GHz on the same circumstances with the air cooler (only stable in one test). Would you buy it, roughly yes and a no, yes if you want cheap version of Intel, but no it is much better to buy a E8500 at least.