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1 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for ENTERTAINMENT
Amd Athlon X2 5050E
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$101.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from DK, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars put it in a media center and renders everything fine with an onboard ati 3200 hd.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars using it for home theater pc use.
  3. from J. Harkman, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars if you're looking for a cool running cpu for a home theater pc, this is certainly the one to get.
  4. from Ehab, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars mated to the gigabyte ga-ma78gpm-ds2h and cooled with a scythe ninja mini with no fan on the ninja (fanless) and the htpc case semi-enclosed in my entertainment rack, the heat is no an issue.
  5. from Dave, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars i had a windows media center 2005 based system with a pentium iv, 2.8 ghz and 6600gt.
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Positives: Good Affordability, Great Performance, Fast, Type: Athlon
2 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for ENTERTAINMENT
Intel Pentium Dual-core Processor E5200 2.5 Ghz 800mhz Fsb (BX80571E5200)
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  1. from JaMa, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars i installed this in an asus-cs5111-ap0007 home theater pc because the e2200 that came with it had issues with 1080p.
  2. from Ewok_N_Roll, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars my main purpose is to use it as a media center with on-line and home movies and music.
  3. from andy, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars this is in a silverstone media pc enclosure thats crammed into a entertainment center.
  4. from all-seeing-1, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars barely hits 85-86 watts while running orthos, defragging the hard drive, and playing a dvd in media center.
  5. from eviljohnstar, www.newegg.com
    4.0 Stars pros: chip is fast 3.57ghz overclocked cons: i couldn't get it stable at 4ghz other thoughts: would make a nice media center chip low voltage= low heat.
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Positives: Good Affordability, Nice Reliability, Fast, Type: Core 2 Duo
3 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for ENTERTAINMENT
Intel Q9550 Core 2 Quad Proccessor - 2.83 GHz,12MB L2 Cache,1333MHz FSB,Socket LGA775,45 nm,3 Year W... (BX80562Q9550) Boxed Processor
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  1. from www.mwave.com
    4.0 Stars this chip has relieved my previous e6600 to be used in a dedicated compact home theatre in the living room.
  2. from N/A, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars cons: as everyone says the intel stock hheatsink sucks, that was sold with the old cpu.this is not an intel issue but if you upgrade your cpu on a windows vista machine and you use windows media
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Positives: Great Affordability, Fast, Great Reliability, Type: Core 2 Quad
 
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