Is this any good?

[Shift]

Looking to buy a new Dual Core CPU next week, is this any good?

http://www.savastore.com/productinf...Savastore&product_id=10291254&pid=44&rstrat=0

If not, what can I buy for that price that is good?

 

[NeptuneUK]

I have that one, and I highly recommend it to everyone else!
If you have a good overclocking motherboard I would recommend you getting the E6300 as it overclocks just as well as the E6400.

I bought mine OEM from ebay for ?117 and I use an arctic 7 cooler, it overclocks to 2.8ghz on my rubbish motherboard which idles at approx 40C, So i reckon this CPU can do well over 3Ghz on a good mobo.
At the moment it is 36C @ 2.41ghz and has been on for about 5 hours.

 

[Gorgon]

excellent cpu, you can overclock it to 3.0GHZ easily

 

[Shift]

Good stuff, thanks for the info

 

[exoeight]

I'll vouch for that.

Just got my e6300, and a friend has one at 3.0 already. It's legit, everyone needs to buy it!! most amazingly engineered piece of hardware to this day. AMD can't touch it, especially at $190 at newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?Item=N82E16819115005
5/5 with 200+ reviews.

p5b deluxe/e6300/x1950pro/2gb ddr2 800

 

[The Brick]

If you plan on overclocking, you might want to wait for the e4000 series. They will be similar in performance, but they operate at a much lower fsb. That way you can reach higher clockspeeds without stressing out the mainboard. The mainboard is the limiting factor in overclocking the e6000 series 90% of the time.

The e4300 will be as expensive as the e6300, operate at 1.8ghz, with a fsb of 200 (multiplier 9). Let's say your mainboard could reach a fsb of 400. That would mean 2.8ghz for the e6300 and 3.6ghz for the e4300.

Also, the e4000 series will all have 4mb L2 cache.