Overclocking Test of Pentium E6500K: Intel’s New Secret Weapon
AMD’s Black Edition processors with unlocked multipliers have been very popular and successful, whereas Intel has locked multipliers on all but its expensive Extreme Edition processors. And now, the status is about to change with the arrival of Pentium E6500K.
According to Intel’s latest roadmap, Intel will launch the Pentium Dual-Core E6500 with a 2.93GHz clock speed on August 9th. Except for being the highest-end processor from Pentium series, E6500 doesn’t bring any exciting features.
Fortunately, it seems that Intel has something else up its sleeve, E6500K, which has silently hit stores in China. The CPU targets mid-range and low-end segment, with retail price of RMB700 (which is about $102).
E6500 is now available for $84 in business quantities, and E6500K should be priced equally.
Pentium Dual-Core E6500K
Intel Pentium E6500K retail box
A bit different from previous blue tradition, E6500K is packed by a small blue and black box. You know, Intel’s Extreme Edition processors are all wrapped by all-black boxes.
The package bears the word “Limited Edition” on the top, and “unlocked” at the bottom right hand corner. (The characters are typed in Chinese.) We guess “Limited Edition” means it’s available in China only, which has been officially confirmed by Intel. Daniel Snyder, Intel’s spokesman, told Xbitlabs that “This is a PRC-only pilot for now. At the end of the pilot, Intel will determine what, if any other similar product should be offered in other geographies.”
The label shows more information about E6500K
We tried to look for some specs about E6500K or E6500 at Intel website, but failed. Hopefully more details will be unveiled after August 9th.
Nothing about E6500 or E6500K was found.
E6500K front side & back view
The CPU-Z utility mistakenly shows it’s a E6500, with a 2.93GHz (11*266MHz) stock clock speed, 2MB of L2 cache, and a 1066MHz front-side bus.
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August 8th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
That OC was done with a budget board too, not bad at all. Put this in my Gigabyte P35-DQ6 board and I bet it can go over FSB500. So anyone in China wanna mail me one of these?
August 9th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I don’t get it, why should anyone buy a core 2 extreme when this thing is unlocked just as well?
August 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I want E6500K!!!
August 9th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I’m living in Shanghai now. Anyone interested could PM me…
August 10th, 2009 at 4:25 am
@no:
Intel doesn’t make C2D-XE anymore. Only C2Q and Ci7.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
but then why does this one cost a hundred bucks instead of a thousand
August 10th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Because they want to get AMD out of the market for good. If that happens, we’ll gonna have to pay an arm and a leg for a decent processor.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Well usually they try to keep the competition just barely in business so they don’t have problems with antitrust..
August 11th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
salut les zouzous pas terrible ce proco mon
pentium 3 double coeur est meilleur
August 14th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Hey guys I’m looking for one of these to test out. Regardless of something being better or not. If you are able to get one mail me cing7@hotmail.com with e6500k as subject and we will talk paypal and shipping cost with a bonus. It will have to be setup usa ebay with a quick transaction so legally you give me the correct processor with pictures and you get your price for cpu + bonus to be discussed and shipping cost.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:08 am
Yo creo que este micro es la sobra de algunos waffers que debe tener intel tirados por ahi, me quedo con mi Quad que ” todavía sirve, todavía sirve.”
Fair POOTO