Typical price: £290
What is it: Fast, cost-effective and efficient desktop processor
What we think: It offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip
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Reviewed on: 27 July 2006
Tags: intel, fans, cache, requirements
We like:
Most cost-efficient chip on the market; low power consumption makes it cooler, quieter and easy to use in smaller PC designs
We don't like:
Chipset politics between Intel and graphics card vendors hurt gamers, who now have to pick an Intel board for ATI's CrossFire or an Nvidia board for SLI cards
CNET UK judgement:
Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip. For half the cost of AMD's top-of-the-line chip, you get identical if not superior performance and better power efficiency. AMD surprised us last year with its completely dominant dual-core chips, but Intel regains the crown with Core 2 Duo
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