Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz Dual-Core Socket 775 Processor.flv

For Business users:

Core 2 Duo's, while very powerful and exciting, is overkill for the typical business user looking to run Office suites and other business apps. Currently, the best bang for the buck for office applications is a socket AM2 X2 3800+ which has more than enough performance for every day business applications.

For Multimedia production:

Core 2 Duo rocks. There is NOTHING to touch it at this time -- and the only readily available desktop to beat it is the Mac Pro's with two 5000 series Xeons (that are really just Core 2 Duo, so really the only option to a Core 2 Duo is... another Core 2 Duo part!). For MP3 and MPEG encoding, nothing comes close to the Conroe and we've shown that in reviews of pretty much the entire lineup from the budget E6300 to the E6700 (and by extension E6800 Extreme through overclocking).

For Gamers:

Core 2 Duo is a great choice; you will not be CPU limited. You will NOT see the kind of frame rate increases that we show in this article; we were deliberately running at 640x480 so we would not be GPU limited -- after all, this is a processor review -- however this allows us to show that the CPU power available will scale with future faster GPU's.

For Overclockers:

Core 2 Duo's are the best overclockers since the legendary Celeron 300's that easily went to 450MHz. A 33% overclock is easy on air, quite doable with the stock cooler -- and by going the extra mile with a really good air cooling solution, we got a 45% overclock!

Previously, with an E6400 and great cooling we went from 2.13GHz to 3.48GHz -- an amazing 63% overclock!

For Everyone:

All this high performance comes at a price.

In order to get the best performance from your Conroe, you need a top notch motherboard and great cooling; not to mention that the Core 2 Duo's are more expensive than the AM2 X2 processors -- so you do pay extra for the higher speed.

For people involved in multimedia production, hard core gamers, and hard core overclockers... there is basically no other choice. Once again, the Core 2 Duo, and E6600, are amazing processors for the price, and we heartily recommend them to anyone needing or wanting that type of horspower.

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Gaming

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[rxcdeath1]

when do these dual core proccesors come out? im tired of being able to only do one thing at once.

[tino730]

Ah, the olden times. I remember the first time I heard someone say what's a quad core? (It was now)

[SkoRpionMW2]

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