stiscooby

Looking to upgrade my PC and there seems a lot of processors about these days.... are the Intel Core 2 Duo Processors the latest ones on the market?

I will be using my PC for the normal things as well as some games, video editing/DVD's etc.

Anyone got one of these and care to comment on their performance?

Cheers

TopBanana

I don't have one, but I read the reviews. They rock

jowl

Got the original core duo in my Mac Book - and they do indeed rock!

Unless I was on a very thight budgest, I'd certainly be going Core 2 Duo in any new desktop I built

PeteBrant

They are the new Athlon64 - Intel have caught up, overtaken and left AMD for dust.

lightning101

Until the AMD quad core, just around the corner

It's good for the consumer

NotoriousREV

Not to mention Intel's quad core due in novemeber and their 80 core due in 5 years time

http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119...9618&subj=news

jowl

I sounded pissed

stiscooby

Thanks for the replies.

Ok, Core 2 Duo it is then

Anyone got any recommendations of a reasonable board to run with one of these beasts??

jowl

I like Abit or Asus boards but have no direct experience with anything for Core 2 Duo.

There's a round-up in this week's Micromart though

SlimJ_2005

The dual cores are a great buy and applications are just starting to use there power!

But these quad core processors are pointless yet, it will be ages before anything takes advantage of the processing power available... but good when it does happen!

jowl

I dunno, if an App is multi-core capable them having more than 2 shouldn't be a problem. For stuff like Video encoding etc, I think they would be used enough.

And they'll still have a lower temp than a P4!!

stiscooby

I think a Core 2 Duo will do me for a while yet let alone 4 Core

God there are so many dam motherboards about its hard to pick one