AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ / 2.6 GHz processor

This processor is good compromise for a person who wants a high end processor but doesn't want to pay the high price. Combined with a good system this little guy will run most games very well, however if you don't have a sound card and are using your motherboard's integrated sound expect a slight drop in performance. At rest my system's temp is about 30 degrees Celsius, but peaks up to 37-40 during heavy use. Temp is however very dependent on the layout of the PC and will depend a lot on how many fans you have and/or use water cooling. I have two computers with this chip and I find that it is ... more

A very fast processor that comes with AMD Cool N Quiet Drivers for your motherboard. I personally find the cpu temperature is around 29 Degrees Celcius at its hottest. The dual core capability makes u able to set affinity for programs, so if you wanted to do a virus scan, you could set it to CPU 0, and meanwhile set all programs you need to CPU 1, therefore no speed is lost. On the whole, as a computer builder, i have bought about 50 of these so far, and will continue to do so until a faster processor hits the shelves. The installation was very easy, as with usual, it was just a clamp to hold ... more

i upgraded this system form my intel celeron d which i must admit is one of the slowest and most annoying processors on the market. i clearly found that this system was better and much faster especially for multi tasking.Amd have really raised the bar on this product and i am very happy to say that i was satisfied with its perfomance. however when it came to playing games like battlefeil which reall need good proccessors i found it a a bit slow . i foun that the reaction was slower than my expectation even though Amd boast of the clock speed. overall i thot that it was good for the money i ... more

i am using this cpu to run a linux home server. it supports virtualization, so if you want to run other OS (windows, linux, MacX ) on top of linux you can.. and you have plenty of cpu to use for your office stuff. very good value-for-money in my view. but make sure you buy ddr2 memory of the same frequency as this cpu. works very quiet and cool; i like listening to music and it very sharp. i do not do games, thus would not know how it performs but it works great on my databases and java programmes... since i use linux i have no need to keep a cpu for running anti-virus scan, and this is just a ... more

this CPU will run any program that you want it to do and will run windows vista with out any problem but the only down side to how fast this cpu is that the amout of hiet that it creates so make shure that you have a good air cooled system or even better go for water cooling but you can throw any thing you like at this cpu and it wil do it no problem what so ever this cpu is great for doing any thing i use it for photo eding playing games word processing playign music even watching tv and it dose not have to think about any thing that i ask it to do i have up grade to this from a 2.8 to this ... more