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"Power with a small price"
This CPU is BLAZING fast. Don't be warded off by the mere 2.4GHz speed. Didn't you know? Speed isn't everything, especially with these models blowing away competition.

Pros: This is a high performance CPU, no doubt about it. It can outperform almost all AMD processors under the 6000+ series. But wait, there's more. This CPU was made to overclock. You can in some cases overclock by 50% even with stock cooling. I am using a Coolermaster Aquagate Mini R120 water cooler kit and have temps of 32C idle and 36C full load at a stock speed of 2.4GHz (2.39GHz if you want to be accurate about it). With an overclock to 3.6GHz (50%), I have 40C idle and 45C full load. Amazing. Simply amazing. Not only is the performance amazing, but the price is very affordable. This is great for the enthusiast or even somebody who is on a tight budget.

Cons: The truth is, there are no cons, unless Intel dominating the market is a con ;).

Other thoughts: I suggest you have a high quality motherboard such as EVGA's 680i series. If you're also going to overclock, you'll need a third-party cooler for efficient cooling.



"it's a BEAST"
Wow, that's about how to describe this chip.

Do you really need it? If you aren't doing the newest games and massively intensive resource sucking programs there is no need.

I run anywere from 10-15 programs at once, including a couple MMORPGs, photoshop CS2, many browser windows, all IM programs, A key tracker for short cuts, MS Word, and several other programs all at the same time and this chip isn't even fased. I still end up with 30% not even being used.

This chip puts out heat like it's cool though, so keep that in mind. I put massive heatsink on this thing just to make sure it stays cool enough.

Unless you are running a program that can bog down the lower dual cores or even a single core 3ghtz chip then you really wont need this much processor. save your money and get a lesser chip, I find it extremely hard to even come close to using this chips full potential.

"Best Processor"
I`m using it and very pleased, very fast and no problems.
I think this is the best buy for having a good computer.
It is stable and has good performance.

"Only One Thing You Need To Know: ITS FAST!"
Theres only one thing you need to know about the new 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo Intel Processor: ITS FAST. From the seccond you take this out of the box its an impressive processor. The processor itself is small and fits in any 775 motherboard processor slot. The heatsink is pretty impressive looking and looks like it would be able to cool a nuclear reactor. I used this processor with a Gigabyte motherboard in a recent computer build and it worked flawlessly. The motherboard instatly recognized the processor and I was good to go. Once you get into windows you will notice a significant speed increase over non Core 2 systems. For the relatively low price of such a fast processor I highly recommend this.

5 out of 5 stars.

"Fair performance for gaming"
I have this new conroe proc instead of my regular AMD processor. It was hard the change from AMD to intel since I am a gamer. However going thru a lot of review I decided to change. Now I am happy with the change and this proc rules.It has good performance and low power consumption. If you are not sure on changing from AMD to intel I can tell you that you do not have to worry about it. This is not the extreme edition but along with me Nvidia 7900 GTX it runs smooth all games. You can try it.