Overclocking: Get The Performance Of A Core i5 From Core i3

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Intel’s $115 Core i3-530 doesn't include Turbo Boost technology and it doesn't boast hardware-based AES-NI, but it overclocks like a fiend. We benchmarked this dual-core, HT-equipped chip at 4.4 GHz and determined the most power-efficient overclock.

Benchmark Results: Applications And Archiving

Cinebench on one thread scales nicely with every megahertz of clock speed.

Once Cinebench is switched to multiple threads, the Core i5-750 comes out on top. The other results scale with their clock speed.

Photoshop users clearly need a multi-core processor. The image editor benefits more from additional execution cores than from increased clock speeds.

The chess software Fritz scales best with additional processing cores, but the clock speed increases lead to linear performance gains, as well.

7-Zip is very computing-intensive if you run LZMA2 and medium or higher compression.

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