Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Review

Testing:

3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest is begun. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.

Settings:

• SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
• CPU Tests: Cpu1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
• HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze

The E7200 just could not compete with the quad core CPUs in this benchmark. When a CPU with more than two cores was used, the results were decidedly higher. Even when overclocked, the E7200 barely beat the stock scores of the quads at 1920x1200.