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What would you recomend?

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Specks

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Looking through Newegg I'm not sure which Core 2 Duo to get. Now if I had money to burn I'd get this:

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Conroe 2.93GHz 4M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor

but seeing that it's $999.00 and that I don't have money to burn. I don't think so. So what would you recomend for a gaming system?

Thanks,

Specks
 
I'd say for gaming, you can't really go wrong with any of the Conroes...but I'd save yourself some money and go for the e6300 or e6400 and OC them. I have an E6300 OC'd to 3.1GHz on air, which makes it faster than that $1,000 (at stock speeds) chip you were looking at. The 6300s and 6400s OC like crazy...so pick one, OC it, and have fun!

Just a side note, make sure you pick the right mobo and memory to be able to get the best OC out of your conroe. GENERALLY, the 6300 and 6400 OC better with the 965 chipset, but you can still get 400MHz+ FSBs on some of the 975 boards.
 
6400 or 6600, which ever fits your budget.

6300's you need a 400FSB just to hit 2.8GHz

Where with a 6400 if you hit 400FSB you get 3.2Ghz and ram at spec.

6600 if you have the money, it will be slightly faster b/c of the larger cache,
but they often overclock in to the "dead zone" for FSB's 330-400
 
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