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2.8C = Northwood .13 micron = great overclockers (usually 3.4-3.7Ghz! on air)
2.8E = Prescott .09 micron = good overclockers but put out a TON of heat compared to a similarly clocked Northwood. And sometimes slower b/c of longer pipeline. Though it is a little faster in a few things b/c of the 1Mb cache (and maybe SSE3).
* my recommendation..... get the 2.8C & wait until the Prescotts mature
don't get the 2.4B, get the "C" variant of the 2.4, and as for OCing, seems that the 2.4s are INSANE overclockers. But I still think that it depends fomr batch to batch.
Buy a mobo that supports the "c" procs. or wait to see how the prescotts do on their new pin config later this year (I think thats when they're coming out)
Either way, my bad on the 2.4 thing, lol. Strange how no one else picked up on that tho.