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Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ |
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| Release date | July 13, 2006 | July 13, 2006 | May 23, 2006 | November 19, 2007 | March 27, 2008 |
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 Check latest prices$184-$240 from 7 stores |
Check latest prices $371-$399 from 2 stores |
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Check latest prices $215 from 1 store |
Check latest prices $209-$280 from 8 stores |
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| Review summary | Intel's Core 2 Duo line marks the end of AMD's run of dominance through the dual-core desktop-processor landscape. Not only are Intel's new chips fast, efficient, and well designed, but they're also aggressively priced and sure to send ripples though the desktop PC industry. If you are buying or building a new computer, we recommend that a Core 2 Duo chip be at its center. | Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip. For half the cost of AMD's top-of-the-line chip, you get identical if not superior performance and better power efficiency. AMD surprised us last year with its completely dominant dual-core chips, but Intel regains the crown with Core 2 Duo. | AMD's new high-end dual-core CPU offers plenty of bang for the buck, outpacing Intel's Pentium 965 Extreme Edition, which costs $200 more. Sounds like a good deal, but wait to see what Intel's next-gen Core 2 Duo chips have to offer when they debut later this year. | AMD's new Phenom quad-core CPU has little to recommend it over competing chips from Intel. The Phenom is marginally less expensive, but not enough to make up for its subpar performance. Unless AMD drops prices more aggressively, it looks like Intel will maintain its grasp on the CPU market for the foreseeable future. | AMD's new Phenom X4 9850 is overpriced and outclassed compared with its Intel-based quad-core competition. If PC vendors can use this chip to make cheap systems (as they did with older Phenoms), we might have nicer things to say, but as a DIY part at this price, we can't recommend AMD's latest quad-core CPU. |
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Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ |
AMD Phenom 9500 (2.2GHz, OEM) |
AMD Phenom X4 9850 (2.5GHz) |
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Core 2 Duo
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Core 2 Duo
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Athlon 64 X2
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1.86 GHz
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2.66 GHz
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2.5 GHz
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1066 MHz
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1066 MHz
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| Product name | Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ | AMD Phenom 9500 (2.2GHz, OEM) | AMD Phenom X4 9850 (2.5GHz) |
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| Price range |
Check latest prices $184-$240 from 7 stores |
Check latest prices $371-$399 from 2 stores |
Email me when product is available |
Check latest prices $215 from 1 store |
Check latest prices $209-$280 from 8 stores |
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