Pentium E5200 O/C Performance And Efficiency

by Thomas Soderstrom

Intel Dual-Core Test Settings
	Default Settings	Overclock Settings
CPU	Intel Pentium E5200 2.50 GHz 2 MB L2 Cache, 1.26V	4.11 GHz, (12x 342 MHz), 1.40V
RAM	DDR3-800 CAS 6-6-6-15, 1.50V	DDR3-1368 CAS 5-5-5-12, 1.65V
Motherboard	MSI P45 Diamond LGA-775, P45/ICH10R, BIOS 1.5 (10/10/2009)
Graphics	Zotac GeForce GTX260² 576MHz GPU, 999 MHz Shader, 896MB GDDR3-2484
Hard Drive	Western Digital VelociRaptor WD30000HLFS 300 MB, 10,000 RPM, 16 MB Cache
Sound	Integrated HD Audio
Networking	Integrated Gigabit LAN
Software
Operating System	Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
Graphics	Forceware 182.08 Desktop

A CPU overclock of 64% yielded Sandra Arithmetic and Multimedia benchmark improvements of 63% and 64%, respectively.

Optimized memory settings resulted in a Sandra Memory Bandwidth improvement of 77% over default values.

At 1.40 volts, the overclocked Pentium E5200 required an average 34% power increase.

A performance increase of 64% with an average power increase of 34% allowed the overclocked E5200 to improve its efficiency by 22% over stock settings.