# For Marcus

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**Created:** [November 19, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-marcus/38963 "2007-11-19T07:17:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-marcus/38963/6 "2007-11-19T08:15:07Z")

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> [@'\[Cyanide](#):
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> ;742324’]It’s 13.5% slower than the Q6600, but it’s also 13.5% cheaper. So it works out 🙂
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> Plus those benchmarks were at stock speeds, they didn’t show any benchmarks where they were able to overclock it to 3.0Ghz.
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> Oh and Tom’s Hardware was able to get it to overclock to 3.0Ghz no problem.

What is going to have more overclocking headroom, a crappy processed 65nm CPU (AMD) or a well processed 45nm CPU (Intel)? It’s really a no-brainer.

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