E5200 Overclocking and performance comparison. | Thread profile

Hi guys, i know some of you have been waiting for this so here it is at last. Bear with me as this is my first review. I set about doing this to try to offer some help to those who have been wondering if it is worth upgrading from what they have. I have done a full suite of benchies with a E4300, E5200 and E6600. I also have partial results from a Q6600 and very patchy results with a E8500....

The next batch. Why did i include Fluidmark i hear some of you ask? Well i included it because you can make large gains by clocking your cpu. Just look at the gains for the E4300 from stock to 3Ghz and 3.4Ghz. The same thing applies to some games as you will see later. Once again the E5200 shows what it can do in Cinebench R10. It beats the other two in everything but the OpenGL test...

Really nice work. Thanks for taking the time to do all that.

Great work, thanks for sharing it. As I expected, the 5200 seems to have replaced the 21*0 as the budget overclocking chip.

You're a legend, albeit a legend with far too much time on his hands!! Doesn't look like I'll be replacing my E4500 with a 5200 anytime soon though

Great work pastymuncher, got there in the end . Your hard work is much appreciated.

Very impressed, thanks for sharing (Given you some stars)

Well done! The question is do i upgrade!!!? (well, you did already answer that)

stunning work and much appreciated, quick Q I have an e6600 which I can only really run at 3.0 due to my mobo limiting my fsb to 333, would there be any gain in real terms with a e5200 @ 3.6 ish ? obviously given your experiences I value your input. Thanks in advance

Thanks Pasty! Much appreciated. Very interesting to see the min frame rate jump up on all CPUs when clocked. That does indeed make a huge difference to gaming as you stated and not a statement one normally associates with increasing fps.