Those who tinker with sophisticated cooling technology can often overclock processors to extraordinary speeds, but the guys at TechSpot took a more practical approach. Using a rock-bottom-priced ($180 ...

The Core 2 Duo E7200 looks to be the new must-have processor for budget users. At a little over $130, why wouldn't that be? The level of performance produced by this low-end processor is incredible ...

The E6300 saw a 54% rise in performance when overclocked, as the file encryption result went from 52MB/s to 80MB/s. This almost made the overclocked E6300 slightly faster than the standard E6700 ...

And now the stock values of the most popular Core 2 Duo CPUs: In the above table, we've left out the Xtreme models since, as we've said, this guide is aimed at ordinary folk not hard-core enthusiasts.

Download Core Temp for true CPU temperatures, or get Intel Temperature Analysis Tool. That'll warm it up real good. <BR>The maximum temp for the Core 2 Duo is 85c.

In this part we will be looking at tweaking voltages and tightening memory timings and generally optimising your PC now it is overclocked. At this point, as we are going a little bit more advanced, we ...