So Intel has came out with an affordable Core 2 Duo called the E4300 and even though it looks the same as a E6300 it's not. One noticable defference is the Core change. The E4300 is on the Allendale core instead of on the Conroe core like the E6300 is. Another difference is that the E4300 has a lower FSB speed of 800mhz compared to the E6300's 1066 FSB. Never the less, this new processor should run about 143 dollars retail and should be a heck of a bargin in later months after it's debut when the price drops even more. This could be what the overclocked Pentium D 805 was in terms of budget system turned power house for very litte money.

The benchmarks are extremly impressive when overclocking from 1.8ghz to 3.4ghz. It out-paces the X6800 in the majority of the test.

http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di...

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

"Our expectations were not misplaced: having increased the voltage by 20% above the default value, we achieved a 15% CPU frequency growth. In other words, we increased the FSB frequency to 380MHz and the resulting CPU frequency grew to 3.42GHz"

90% OC = Wow Wow Wee Wah!

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