10 Best Processors for Intel
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Out of thousands of reviews for 125 products, over 1,000 people recommended Processors specifically for Intel. These 10 are the most highly recommended products we found.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 BX80557E6750SLA9V
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$140 - $275
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167 People Recommend
"it's intel, and if you've been using their chips for a while now you know what to expect from this product.…" - Newegg.com User "other thoughts: this is the first intel processor i have owned sinced the p3 days and i'll have to say it is a great processor.…" - Newegg.com User "a must get if you have the money or spend 10 bucks more and get the 3.0 ghz either way intel has great product...…" - P at Newegg.com |
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180
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67 People Recommend
"summary: after being a strong amd supporter for years, this was my first intel processor purchase since the original celeron 300a.…" - Mwave.com User "my last intel processor (pentium d) overheated so i had to replace it and decided to buy this one based on price and eggcellent reviews.…" - Dannyboy at Newegg.com "it is by far the best included heatsink ive ever gotten, intel or amd.…" - Newegg.com User |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz
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$176 - $230
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65 People Recommend
"other thoughts: the temperature reading is the only flaw i have found, it may even be a board problem (although it is a new intel board).…" - Newegg.com User "using an intel core 2 extreme fan i had laying around on silent mode with p5k temp ~23c - 35c oc'ed alittle to 2.5ghz had it @ 2.85 (~34c)…" - Newegg.com User "other thoughts: first intel build since piii days, and i'm very pleased with it.…" - Newegg.com User |
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 BX80557E4500SLA95
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$93 - $131
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55 People Recommend
"summary: this is a good processor with relatively cheap price compared to other intel's other high-end processor.…" - Mwave.com User "other thoughts: follw this link direct to intel processor specification finder: http://processorfinder.intel.com/list.aspx?procfam=2558&sspec=&ordcode=.…" - Newegg.com User "my older system uses a higher end asus motherboard and raited a 4.8 with a pentium d 2.8 ghz processor and 2gb ram.…" - Newegg.com User |
Intel Celeron 420 1.60GHz 800MHz FSB 512KB L2 Socket 775 Plus $25 off
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$35
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28 People Recommend
"because this processor is the only single core processor intel sells now that by default makes it a celeron.…" - Newegg.com User "other thoughts: running overclocked much faster than its stock rating and getting a vista processor rating of 4.7 benchmarked much faster than a similarly priced sempron 3400.…" - Newegg.com User "it runs faster and cooler than my old pentium-d805 which was dual core as well.…" - Newegg.com User |
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800
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$998
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8 People Recommend
"i would have given this processor the ''5 star'' vote except that the inclosed heat sink and fan seem to come undone from the d975xbx2 intel mobo every three days or so.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "i don't want to totally shoot down intel on this one but you definitely get what you pay for here.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "the chip gets really hot really fast and has a lower temp threshold then most other chips (intel reports that it can't go over 53c).…" - Newegg.com User |
upgrade 2 x AMD Second-Generation Opteron 8218
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$45 - $64
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8 People Recommend
"other thoughts: i would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a single core intel based processor.…" - Ewok_N_Roll at Newegg.com "forget all of you that have a stigma about all celerons being horrible, when a you've never owned one, and b you had one bad experience and labeled them all bad.…" - Newegg.com User "the excitement in computing is back with celeron 440 and ubuntu 8.04.…" - dswanson at Newegg.com |
Intel Core2 Duo E4500 2.20GHz
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$119
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4 People Recommend
"actually seems to perform much faster than my 2.67 mhz pentium d even though it's running at 2.2 mhz.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "great processor, intel has really stepped up to amds hold on the gaming maket.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "destroys my celeron in speed.…" - Tigerdirect.com User |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
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$189 - $290
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3 People Recommend
"do yourself a favor and go to intels website and watch the installation video before you even attempt to install the heatsink fan.…" - biggie99 from bo at Circuitcity.com "i went from a pentium d 3ghz to the e6850 and wow what a difference. …" - JT3 from Texas at Circuitcity.com "do yourself a favor and go to intels website and watch the installation video before you even attempt to install the heatsink fan. …" - biggie99 from bo at Circuitcity.com |
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 3 GHz Q36850
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$450 - $1,145
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3 People Recommend
"as part of intel’s progressive march forward for ever faster performance, this processor takes off sprinting.…" - Mwave.com User "though it's costly and few applications can yet push it to its limits, the intel qx6850 delivers performance bragging rights as the fastest cpu for desktop pcs available today.…" - Denny Atkin at Computershopper.com "the quad-core core 2 extreme qx6850 keeps the desktop cpu performance belt tied firmly around intel's waist at a price that helps offset the lack of sizable performance gains.…" - Rich Brown at Cnet.com |
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