Intel’s Pentium E6500K with Unlocked Multi Hits Shelves
AMD’s Black Edition processors have enjoyed tremendous popularity among DIY market, so Intel decides to market with the Pentium E6500K in response. Actually, this model with unclocked mutiplier has hit stores in Guangzhou, China.
The blue and black package box is marked with “unclocked”, and the processor does not come with CPU cooler.
As the second model from Intel Pentium E6000 series, the Pentium E6500K is based on 45nm processing, and runs at 2.93GHz, with 1066MHz of FSB and 2MB of L2 cache, supporting virtualization technology.
The CPU package looks quite small and adorable.
Intel Pentium E6500K is sold in bundle with Biostar TP45E Combo motherboard for RMB1299 (US$190) together. The motherboard retails RMB799 ($117) separately. According to Intel’s roadmap, the CPU will cost $84.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
What the hell??
August 7th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Unlocked Multiplier? This is competition to Phenom II X2 550?
August 8th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Preetam, there is no competition there, the E6500K would SMOKE the X2.
August 8th, 2009 at 2:59 am
I really wanna see dual core 32nm unlocked. Can you say 5.5GHz on air? That’s 5.5GHz on a single thread! None of that silly multithread garbage.
August 8th, 2009 at 7:40 am
@Jason:
How about 5.5GHz on 4 threads (2 cores+HT) if Intel doesn’t neuter the i3′s?
@Preetam/Sean:
And the 550X2 would still have the possible quad-unlock to smoke any other dual-core. Failing that, yes, the Pentium should have waaay more headroom.
August 8th, 2009 at 11:24 am
LOL. A Pentium Dual core with unlocked multiplier and no CPU cooler?? I would prefer Phenom II X2 550 and it will eat this E6500k for snaks!!!
What a lame pricing!!!
August 8th, 2009 at 11:56 am
i wish this sh*t could unlock to X4!!!
August 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
@1000cc:
You may want to try a Xeon 5502* then… That is provided you have advanced BIOS coding abilities, the worlds smallest soldering iron and a really steady hand.
Still, who wants an 80W dual that only runs at 1.86GHz? IMO a terrible chip. Doesn’t even have HT. Then again, with Intels’ tactic of charging 3-4x the price for Xeons, one of these for desktop should only cost $50-70 US but even then it would be a rip-off.
*disclaimer*Unlocking the 5502 should be practicaly impossible.
August 9th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Its not 1.86 ghz, its 2.93ghz. Also if the new e6300 is any indication this thing is an OC BEAST>
August 9th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
@Sean:
“Preetam, there is no competition there, the E6500K would SMOKE the X2.”
You should take a look at here:
maxxpi.net/pages/description/multipi/multipis-scaleability.php
(look at dualcores)
August 10th, 2009 at 4:16 am
@dan bonner:
1.86GHz was refering to Xeon 5502 nehalem dual-core.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Clock-for-clock, a Pentium E6500K may not perform like an pricer E8x00 due to the wide cache memory differences (2 vs 6). It will not threaten sales of all other higher L2 cache CPUs, certainly not threaten other unlocked-multi CPUs as their markets do not overlap. There aren’t many folks who would find a decision between a $90 CPU and a $1000 CPU difficult.
@HollowFox
Intel’s TDP rating is just that, a classification range, it doesn’t apply to any particular CPU. If we assumed the fastest model had the highest TDP (which isn’t always), then we could scale other CPUs by that. For example, if Intel’s Core i7 975 was indeed 130W, then scaled by clockspeed puts the 920 at 100W. But since it is still above 95W TDP range, 920 gets stuck with the 130W TDP rating. Since the upcoming LGA1156 CPUs are below 95W TDP, they get tha rating.
But, Intel doesn’t always follow their own logic. To protect sales, they will lump CPUs into different ratings; their mobile Penryn quads are an example of this: All are stuck in the 44W TDP rating, even if the slowest could qualify for 35W TDP or less.
Getting back to Xeon E5502, the fastest model in the 80W bracket is the 2.53Ghz quad-core Xeon E5540. A 1.86GHz dual-core is very easily <40W given the clockspeed difference, absense of turbo and HT. Despite being so crippled, Intel won’t advertise the CPU by placing it in its own rating away from the others, as it would threaten their low-power Xeon line. Hence they lump E5502 it into 80W, like all other E5500′s, leaving only those who look for it to get it.