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Rating: 5 Star Review

Strengths: One of his strengths is his new Front Side Bus, which is at 166 MHz. The Athlon XP 2800+ gets more performance because of the higher FSB...

Weaknesses: If the frequency would be higher, a Pentium IV from Intel didn´t have any chances, but it isn´t so. Nevertheless the XP 2800+ gets more speed in...

Review: A good CPU from AMD, but the price will be very high, about 450 Dollars. You can read a complete review of the cpu at hardware-mag.de

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Good performance

Rating: 5 Star Review

Strengths: Product was as spec'd. My motherboard needed a bios update to stop error code on boot up. Asus states the bios was compatable, however it neede...

Weaknesses: Runs hot. USe aftermarket cooler

Review: Processor was a definate upgrade from my orginal 530 cpu. Boot time was greatly reduced. Frame rates in BF2142 were increased. Web surfing speed was increased. My only suggestion is purchase a heavy duty cooler. The supplied stock cooler ran at full rpm durring most gaming times.

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CPU for when the 10x multiplier is worth that extra...

Rating: 4 Star Review

Strengths: 10x FSB Multiplier, 4MB on-die cache, lots of overhead for overclocking and reasonable temps at stable and high speeds.

Weaknesses: Unless you're overclocking substantially and have a motherboard that has some FSB limitations, the price over an E6600 (or possible and AMD X2...

Review: I purchased this processor after Intel's April 22nd price cut, with the new price at roughly $330. It has found a home on my DFI Infinity 975X/G motherboard (which I has previously had an E6600 on). This particular motherboard hits an FSB wall at 372 MHz -- I can be stable for 100+ of heavy computing (using the BOINC distributed computing project when otherwise not in use) at 372, but at 373...