Neoseeker has looked at the budget dual-core CPU Intel Pentium D 805. This processor is a lower performance version of the 820/830/840 family of dual core CPUs. It features a 533 MHz FSB and two cores with 2.66 GHz and 1 MB L2 cache per core. Neoseeker awards it the ‘Value Award’, writing in the [...]
TweakTown compares the game performance of the AMD dual-core CPUs Athlon FX-60 and Athlon X2 3800+. Here’s an excerpt of their final thoughts:
The Athlon FX-60 is a great gaming processor with plenty of power as already mentioned but unless you are completely serious about gaming and want to run very high resolutions with all the [...]
Bit-Tech has reviewed Intel’s high-end processor Pentium EE 965, coming to this conclusion:
All in all, the Pentium Extreme Edition 965 brings a respectable end to the NetBurst architecture, but it’s still questionable whether many users have a use for a CPU capable of simultaneously handling four logical threads, especially gamers. The Quake 4 test proves [...]
XbitLabs reviewed the AMD Opteron 165 dual-core CPU. They like the value and the very good overclocking results of this Socket 939 processor. Here’s a part of their conclusion:
The thing is that AMD Opteron 165 is the best value dual-core AMD processor for Socket 939 platforms. However, the performance of this processor in traditional desktop [...]
MBReview has looked at the Intel Extreme Edition 955 CPU. This socket i975X dual core CPU has a FSB of 1066 MHz and 2 MB level 2 cache for each core. Here comes an excerpt of MBReview’s final thoughts:
Overall, if you’re in the market for an upgrade I’d have to say to stick it out [...]