Scythe Kama

Advantages: Very cool, easy to install
Disadvantages: copper on the cpu side far from mirror ( needs a polish )

...Test system: processor - AMD Athlon FX62 (2 x 2800 MHz / 125W TDP) motherboard - ASUS M2N32 DeLuxe Wireles Edition (passive cooling system with HeatPipe) Cooler is very easy to install just one lever. More experienced users will probably remove thermal compound and polish the surface of the cooler ( it is far from being a mirror ) and then apply high quality thermal compound. This will give You another 1-2 C less and faster cooling down after stress. all tests were done using Zalman STG 1 ( high quality thermal compound ) Temperature readings after 60 minutes in idle: Akasa AK-876 37 Arctic Cooling 64PRO 38 Scythe Katana II 39 Temperature readings after 60 minutes in 100% load: Akasa AK-876 56 Arctic Cooling 64PRO 58 Scythe Katana II 61 Temperature readings... Read review

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Advantages: high overclocking, dual core
Disadvantages: none

...This cpu is very cheap and gives more power overclocked then any other core 2 duo processor I am using Scythe Infinity to cool it down and on 1,5V it is running at 3,6 GHz 100% overclock My motherboard is Asus P5B Deluxe WIFI/AP All fans in my PC are running on 5V not 12V so it is very quiet, 120 mm fan on scythe infinity runs on 5V as well After overclocking all benchmarks and ratings doubled leaving behind all dual core cpu's Temperature of the Core 100% load is reaching 60C - 65C readings made with CoreTemp. Pc is very stable sometimes runs longer than a week without any problems during all that time. I can recommend it to everyone this is the best cpu ever realesed by Intel.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: 4 cores. New G0 stepping Q6600 runs cooler and is easy to overclock
Disadvantages: Software doesn't take advantage of all 4 cores.

...I bought this a while ago for £160 even at that price it is a bargain and now you can get it £140 a no brainer in my opinion. An extremely powerful processor 2.4Ghz per core adding up to a total of 9.6Ghz. The best thing about this processor for me though is its potential for overclocking, if you get the new G0 stepping which is a must this processor can easily be overclocked to 3.3Ghz just by using a good cooler such as a Scythe Infinity and would probably be able to be overclocked to 3Ghz using the default cooler. This processor will do it all if you want to encode a video no problem I have encoded a full 90minute film in less than 30minutes and while I was doing that I was also playing a top end game without any lag. Coupled with 2Gb of fast DDR2 memory and a good graphics card such as a 8800GTX your new rig will easily be able run... Read review

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