Dualcore value for money?

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Hi!

What is currently the best value for money (price/performance) among the
current batch of dualcore 64bit processors?

Best Wishes
Thomas
 
Hi!

What is currently the best value for money (price/performance) among the
current batch of dualcore 64bit processors?

Best Wishes
Thomas
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For high performance systems the X2 4400+, for budget systems the X2 3800+
 
Personally, I'd recommend the X2 4600+ or even the X2 4800+. Yeah, those are
the priciest X2s you can get right now but *I* like to think in terms of
buying the most you can buy right now that will last the longest and give
you the most performance. Yeah, if you want bang for buck, then get the
4400+ or 4200+.

And, in case you haven't settled on a motherboard yet:

If you get an X2 processor, I highly recommend the Asus A8N-SLI motherboard
or a non-SLI version of it if you are not needing to do SLI with video. I
recommend this board because (a) My close friend went this route and is very
very happy with it; and (b) I've seen quite a few good reviews of this board
net-wide.
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Thomas said:
What is currently the best value for money (price/performance) among the
current batch of dualcore 64bit processors?
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Around here the AMD x2 3800+ is the best for price/performance. The
other x2 processors are somewhat faster for progressively higher prices,
but I don't think the value is as good.

The Intel Pentium D 820 is also a good value, but not quite up the
performance of the 3800+.

For overclocking, the x2 3800+ is definitely one of the better options.
I'm currently running mine 25% faster at 2500 MHz and it beats the
scores of almost any x2 or Pentium D chip, even at twice the price.
 
What about Optys? My 165 runs at 2500 on all stock voltages and air cooled
(limited by use of 4x512 Ram) and has 1 gig of cache versus 512 for the
3800. If you get lucky you can find a retail box for under $325.

LSASr
 
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