The least-expensive Quad-Core to purchase right now is $193, and that’s at lower frequencies than the Pentium we’re looking at here, but with the same cache. The FSB is higher, but our E5200 is ...

Intel’s last Pentium-branded product launches happened mid last year, with the “Presler” core based Pentium-D processors hitting the market at speeds in excess of 3.0 GHz.

AMD's Athlon 64 X2 3800+ is an affordable entry-level dual core processor. But how does it match up to Intel's equivalent Pentium D? We have the benchmarks.

The only AMD processor that's slower than an Intel CPU is the Athlon 64 X2 3800+, but even that CPU manages to outpace Intel's lower-end dual-core chips, the Pentium D 830 and the Pentium D 820 ...

Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 US MSRP (as reviewed): $84 While some of our readers enjoy overclocking to break records and often go to extreme measures to do so, generally most enjoy overclocking ...

They’re all dual-core CPUs with no Turbo Boost, no Hyperthreading, and 3MB of cache, and they’re typically paired with the basic Intel HD 510 integrated GPU.

Glacial, that is, compared to the 3.2GHz of Intel 's own Core 2 Extreme QX9770. Surprisingly capable Funny thing is, however, even at stock clocks, this processor delivers a decent experience.