Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Overclocking Performance

Intel now has so many different processor series to choose from it makes buying the right one a difficult job. The current LGA775 platform supports a number of processors featuring different clock speeds, front side bus speeds, cache and cores. The common choice at the moment is the Pentium 4 5xx, 6xx, D series and now the Core 2 Duo/Extreme series of processors. Personally, whenever I purchase an Intel processor for gaming or general use, a processor from the 6xx series is my first choice. The main reason for this is these processors feature a 2MB L2-Cache, where as the 5xx series only offers a 1MB L2-Cache. Another positive attribute of the 6xx series processors is their overclocking abilities.