Today Intel unveil their new Core 2 Duo or "Conroe" microprocessor family. OCAU have the high-end 2.93GHz X6800 and the 2.67GHz E6700, compared with the current top-flight Pentium D 955XE and AMD's A64 FX-62. Lots of info, loads of benchmarks and of course, some overclocking.

The E6700 for example has a multiplier range of 6x ~ 10x. Under full processor load the system runs at 10 x 266 MHz = 2.66 GHz. When the system is idling or running with low load the multiplier can be dropped down to 6x and the processor runs only at 1600 MHz. At the same time the CPU voltage is lowered as well. Intel is claiming that thanks to all these measures the Core 2 Duo thermal design power is at least 40% lower than Pentium D.



Link: OCAU