whats better?

basically i have £70 to spend on my new processor regardless of mobo as ill get whatever mobo required on what processor i get
so whats the absolute best processor around now i can get for £50-£70
AMD or Intel
 
thermophilis said:
it's about $100-$140
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Much obliged.

I'm an Intel fanboy, so...

E4500 through E4700 should be within that price range. I just grabbed a 4500 the other day and all I can say is "WOW!". 2.2 Gh stock and can easily handle an OC to 3.0 from what I've read. It's handled everything I've thrown at it without breaking a sweat so far. You might be able to find a slightly better one that falls within that range if it's on sale or you order online and get free shipping.

I'm not even going to pretend I know enough about AMD to make suggestions:)
 
imsati said:
Much obliged.

I'm an Intel fanboy, so...

E4500 through E4700 should be within that price range. I just grabbed a 4500 the other day and all I can say is "WOW!". 2.2 Gh stock and can easily handle an OC to 3.0 from what I've read. It's handled everything I've thrown at it without breaking a sweat so far. You might be able to find a slightly better one that falls within that range if it's on sale or you order online and get free shipping.

I'm not even going to pretend I know enough about AMD to make suggestions:)
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thank you very much all taken on bored, will await others peoples opinions with amd etc, i have till next payday to decide which is the 13th
 
with that, i guess u can get an AMD dual core. the phenoms( quadcores) arent great at all. But the dual cores are nice. get either a 5400+ x2, or a 5800+ x2, or get a 6000+, or 64000+ x2. the last two i posted maybe probaly 20-40 USD outta ur range though.
 
E2xxxs overclock like crazy, you can easily get them to perform better than its AMD counterparts and it only loses to similarly clocked e6xxxs (and you can easily take an e2* to an e6*s stock speeds) in memory-intensive applications like heavy gaming, intensive multimedia apps (<not watching DVDs/torented movies) and compression because of its smaller cache. With a decent mobo, Pentium Dual-Cores will give you the best bang for buck. If you are not planning on doing any OCing, you might be better off listening to other ppls suggestions...
 
of course intel e6300 is better.

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deankenny said:
the intel e2180 or the intel e6300
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E6300 is slightly faster on average than E2180

But I'm pretty sure that E2200 and the new E2220 are somewhat faster than E6300 in most cases, because they have much higher clock speed
 
what about Xeon Dual-Core 5030 ???

basically whats best and fatest processor for games from the following

xeon dual core 5030
e2180
e6400
 
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