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has anyone tried the intel core 2 duo ???if yes then please tell me how's it workin??is it doin' good???
i will also like to know which processor would you personally suggest???
thanks

nut much help but i run one here and its great

I have and must say that it works like blazes. It is more powerful than other "better" processors and I can recommend it.

As much as I am a AMD man, it is a very nice processor, from what I hear!
I suggest you get an AMD, they are much better.

Is it true the core duos are getting hot/high temps while running.

yeah but not extremely so you can use it with a normal fan.

I've got a Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 on order so I will hopefully be able to get it within the next few weeks and test it.
From what I know, it uses less power (65W compared to the Prescott core which is around 120-130 from memory) and is cooler than the Prescott.

My new PC has a Core 2 Duo X6800 Extreme, and all I can say is, it's [i]smokin[/i]. Everything, even something as lame as a Windows logon is freakin fast, I virtually never experience a slowdown when running tons of apps at the same time (thanks to the 2GB of RAM too!) and when you pair this bad boy with a 7900GTX, games are amazing. Expensive, but highly recommended.

Is your RAM DDR or DDR2? Also what motherboard are you using?

For those interested in the full specs - I've got the Core 2 Extreme X6800 with 2GB of Corsair XMS DDR2 RAM, an EVGA 7900GTX video card, 2 Samsung Lightscribe 16x DVD burners, and 2 320GB Seagate 7200rpm SATA drives in a RAID 0.

So what about an AMD processors? I heard that they got 2 core too? Or it's fake? :-)

AMD Athlon X2


Looks nice, don't know which is better though. (I'd still get the AMD one though )

Core 2 quad + nvidia = awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OF9qoWKNbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DetnKgOxrSI

=))

I've got an AMD Athlon 64 3500 + , 1 GB DDR400 dual channel and an X700 512 DDR2 Graphics card. I have to say that my computer works very well. Nevertjeless, i've recently installed an OS on my uncles computer. He's just bought an AMD X2 64 4200+, 1 GB DDR633 Dual CH, radeon X1900 XT, etc(you're probably imagining the specs) and he's computer doesn't move much faster than mine when it comes to simple stuff like logging in and using windows. but when it comes to multitasking...well...IT FLIES!!! to give you an idea, i've tried forcing it. I played NFS Most Wanted at full details, 1280*1024 res, with max filtering, i had 90 FPS, i was running at the same time 3dmark05 and watching a video. the processor was loaded at 85% and there was no lag. So I hope that the core 2 duo is better than this, or else it's really not worth it.

Also you should keep in mind the overclocking potential of the lower versions of X2 (such as 3800+ and 4200+) which are very high...with a little overclocking you can make it double it's performance in comparison with an fx55( which is 800 dollars). So I say GO AMD!