Now, at first glance, this looks like an ordinary socket 775 process, sir, but is actually a special edition ship that you may never have heard off.

This is the Pentium E 6500 K releasing exclusively in China.

In late 2009 this CPU offered something a standard e 6500 didn't unlocked multiplier.

This was a big deal because that was a feature reserved for Intel's expensive high end court To extreme Siris on this was a chip retailing for roughly 89 U.

S.

Dollars.

I think of it as being like the original painting G 30 to 58.

Except I didn't have quite so much luck with it, but more on that later.

So whilst it seems strange that this never made it to European or American markets, thanks to the power of eBay, I was able to get one cent over for just £11 or just under 15 us looking at it closely.

And the only way you can tell this apart from a regular painting, E 6500 is, of course, the printed name on the model number below it s L g y p as opposed to S l G u H.

This is an important distinction to make, though it's one that can be confirmed in CPU Zet.

Venturing into the BIOS and the multiply menu of this ASU's P five n.

E s L.

I also reveals the true nature of the E 6500 K's apparent over clock ability.

After simply increasing the multiply to 14.5 on touching nothing else, I was able to get this to 3.87 Giger stable as shown in the Cine a bench capture.

This increased its multicourse school from 1 10 to 159 a fair improvement considering I was using a stock 775 cooler.

I was even able to hit four gigahertz like this by increasing the voltage to 1.3 on the multiply 2 15 They're about a minute into the sin.

A bench test.

It crashed to a blue screen restarting at 3.87 gigahertz, and I jumped into a few game bench marks around the crisis in game CBU benchmark first and the over clocked.

Help me to cross the line from unplayable to playable, averaging 30 frames per second.

The 1% and 10.1% low figures indicates some stutter, which, as you can see, were picked up in the recording, though it's a nice improvement over the average F.

P s stock.

BioShock, infinite also benefited from the multiplier increase.

Albeit we still had to run the game very low in order to see playable frame rates.

I stuck with older titles best suited to this CPU, though I attempted fortnight at one point only to be hit with an infinite loading screen.

So I'm not sure if the servers were down or whether this CPU was just giving up.

On May 2000 thirteen's Tomb Raider was also very playable, averaging over 50 frames per second at medium again.

This was an improvement over stock speeds, but the CPU was still running at 100% usage throughout every in game test.

I used the 10 50 as it was more than enough to handle this CPU.

At this point, though, I thought to myself, these speeds were okay, but this is a rare special edition process.

Er, sure, the five and six gigahertz speeds I've been reading about are probably a little out of reach on air, but it's four gigahertz.

Too much to ask.

With that in mind, I whipped out the Arctic freeze of seven pro and planted in this system.

But this is where it all went wrong.

I'm not a fan of saying so in the title.

It sounds a little bit Clickbait e, but after two days of misery, I thought I'd earned it.

See, it was clear my CPU had been well used.

By the time it arrived with me, there were still signs of crispy thermal paste all over it.

The new caller helped two ton temperature wise, the CPU was idling at 30 degrees instead of 38 but it just wouldn't budge past 3.87 I tried a different, bold, different ram, different voltages, all to no avail.

And then it started freezing.

Every time on start up, it would freeze and it wouldn't leave the bio screen.

Personally, I think the CPU was part of an over clock attempt gone wrong, whereby voltages may have been applied that will well beyond sensible.

After all, this CPU was made for overcooking enthusiasts who wanted to smash the AMG black serious CBU records.

Then my worst nightmare was realized.

After one final freeze, I pulled the plug, restarted the PC and nothing.

I even replaced my 10 50 with the G force to 10 thinking that was the problem and swapped out every stick of Ram my hat.

But nothing was working.

For nearly 10 years, this thing helped budget gamers squeeze every last drop of performance out of their systems, perhaps allowing them to shuffle over the line of playability thanks to its on paper over clocking potential.

But all that ended here with May and for that little Pentium.

I'm sorry, but it's clear that this thing had been sent out to pasture on the second hand market in search of an owner it could die with.

I didn't exactly get the result I desired from this painting me 6500 k, a pretty rare China exclusive CPU at the time of its launch.

But nonetheless, I hope you guys have enjoyed this video.

I certainly enjoyed putting it together up until the point the CP failed on me, but as always, if you enjoyed it, leave a like lever dislike.

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