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    Intel Dual Core E2180 vs Athlon 64 x2 4600+

    I think the title says it all. Basically all other things being equal which one of the above processors will give me the best system performance. I am looking to buy the components to build a system and cannot decide which processor is best. Once the processor is decided I can decide on the motherboard.

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    Re: Intel Dual Core E2180 vs Athlon 64 x2 4600+

    Will you be overclocking?

    How long do you want it to last?

    I think the E2220 is probably the best chip to go for. 2.4GHz out of the box and overclocks up to 3.0GHz nicely

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    Re: Intel Dual Core E2180 vs Athlon 64 x2 4600+

    Not really into overclocking. I just want a reasonable pc for a budget price to keep me going until I have some real money to buy a decent setup, maybe in about a year.

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    Re: Intel Dual Core E2180 vs Athlon 64 x2 4600+

    I heard that the E2220 hits an fsb wall and therefore is difficult to get past 3.3-3.4ghz... That's why I went for the E7200 for a bit more (£27), should be able to hit 3.8ghz on air nicely and it has the extra cache

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    Re: Intel Dual Core E2180 vs Athlon 64 x2 4600+

    The E2220 is usually less than £50 on scans today only now so that's what I would buy then.

    If you go for AMD, go for a brisbane core rather than windsor. They run cooler and use less power.

    I have a brisbane 5000+ and an e6600 core 2 duo, both are pretty similar clock for clock in the apps I run so there is no problem going AMD. Intel offer a better upgrade path imo.

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    Re: Intel Dual Core E2180 vs Athlon 64 x2 4600+

    At stock (and overclocked even) the Intel would be faster IMO.

    You would have to clock an X2 Athlon to around 3.5GHz to beat a C2D (even one with a lot less cache than normal other than the Celeron one) clocked at around 2.8GHz I think.

    Im sure the E2180 would acheive a super pi time of less than 25 seconds at stock, where as the AMD would probably be 35 or more, depending on RAM timings, speed etc, but obviously SuperPI is just an indication of how the processor performs.

    I've got an E2200 clocked to 3006MHz, but unfortunately this chip isn't the best clocker (from what I've read the E2140/60/80s clock better than the E2200) and the max I can benchmark it at with 1.55v is 3444MHz giving a 19s super pi time, but the RAM timings weren't very tight and I didnt try to make it any better as it seems fast enough, for what I use it for, at 3GHz.
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