Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale Dual-Core 2.5 GHz LGA 775 65W BX80571E5200 Desktop Processor

Pros: Runs so cool, I can't believe it. Easy to overclock past 3.5ghz Running 3.325ghz - 266 x12.5 needed a tiny bit of voltage increase over Auto voltage. 3.5Ghz - 280x12.5 - stable 1.360v idle/1.312v load (vdroop) 3.7Ghz - 296x12.5 - stable 1.408v idle/1.360v load (vdroop) 4.0Ghz - 320x12.5 running at 1.456v idle, but since it had vdroop it was not stable. I did not want to push it but 1.5v core should make it stable at 4ghz!!!

Cons: Stock heatsink is a joke. It is so thin its funny. My E4300 heatsink is twice as tall. By a aftermarket heatsink, or get a better 775 intel heatsink. Using the Freezer 7 pro heatsink, but the surface is uneven and will need to be flat sanded so the heatspreaer surface will mate with it 100%. I did a review about it in the Freezer 7 pro reviews.

Overall Review: 1.45v vcore is the Absolute Maximum for the E5200 according to intels documentation. Not 1.3625v like the spec sheet. The CPU runs very cool. You will have no issues at all with a better heatsink combo. 4ghz+ on air. This CPU has a max temperature of 74c (Tcase). This will be temp1,2, or 3 in speedfan or other monitors and the bios reading. NOT core1/core2 if your using core temp. Tcase is the temperature to go by. Tjunction is core1/core2 a maximum of 95-100c 3.5ghz CPU Idle 26c, - Core1/core2 idle 41c CPU load 49c - Core1/core2 load 60c 3.7ghz CPU Idle 29c, - Core1/core2 idle 44c CPU load 53c - Core1/core2 load 64c So as you can see even at 3.7ghz, 53c at full load is well under the 74c max cpu temperature. Even the core temps are well under the max.

Pros: This CPU is probably the best overclocker Intel has ever released. I use this regularly in my builds instead of the slightly higher priced e7XX series. I was able to easily raise the clock speed to 3.6 GHz with the stock cooler staying less than 65 C under prime 95 for more than THREE days. Settings were FSB == 288 * 4 == 1152 CPU == 288 * 12.5 == 3.6 GHz Vcpu == 1.34 V RAM == 288 * 3.33 == 960 MHz Vram == 1.9 V Vnb == +0.1 V Paired with a 9600 GT This system rocks out most games and cost less than $400.00 all on the egg The system scored 5.9's across the board in vista, and everything scored above 6.5 in Windows 7 except the RAM, which stayed at 5.9.

Cons: Not Free? I buy tons of these. I should receive a discount.

Overall Review: do it now, before they are Uber obsolete

Pros: This is for the non-enthusiast browsing Newegg. As most on Newegg know, the E5200 is a Core 2 Duo Wolfdale CPU similar to the E8000 series. As a matter of fact, every CPU Intel currently manufactures are Core 2 Duos, even the "Celeron" processors are really lower clocked Centrino procs used in laptops. This means that you can achieve beyond E8600 specs very easily with this $70 CPU! It has a high multiplier at 12.5 that has shown speeds up to 4GHZ on air. To get E8400 stock speed of 3GHZ stable like I have for my mothers computer, all you need to do is have a motherboard that you can change the front side bus speed (that is set to a default of 200) and change it to 240 x 12.5 to equal 3GHZ! You can go much higher of course but you would need to know a little more about overclocking from some of the other reviews.

Cons: The 2MB L2 cache is a con albeit a very minor one. You lose a tiny bit of overclocking potential seen in the E7200 w/ a 3MB L2 cache.

Overall Review: Dont be fooled by the names "Celeron" or "Pentium" anymore, they are ALL Core 2 Duos that perform quite well, have high overclocking potential, and are power efficient.

Pros: Amazing power per dollar. Dual-Core. 45nm, so it's significantly cooler than the chips in the E2xxx series.

Cons: The included cooler is alright, but I almost broke one of the little plastic clips when installing it. Do yourself a favor and get a Zalman or Thermaltake with a bigger fan that is quieter. This chip also doesn't have hardware virtualization, but you can hardly expect that at this price point.

Overall Review: I'm using it in a x64 Vista Media Center setup. Before, I was using a Pentium 4 2.8GHz. 720p video would use about 95% of the CPU, and 1080i video would not play smoothly at all. Now, with the E5200, 720p video uses 14% of the CPU, and 1080i only about 19%. Now I can play HD video on the computer, on an extender, record 2 TV shows, and still have CPU cycles to spare. Make sure your motherboard supports the 45nm chips!

Pros: overclocked to 3.5G easily (vid @ 1.24 v) using my favorite $60 ga-g31m-s2l motherboard(no bios update needed). super pi 1m @ 3.5G = 16.4 seconds on a fresh xp install. great performance / $ .

Cons: all these new processors to play with are costing me a fortune.

Overall Review: i sure hope amd can get back in the game to keep the price down and tech up.

Pros: Great price/performance ratio with this chip. Low power, runs cool, great for a HTPC or entry level gaming box. Wolfdale w/ 2MB L2 Cache for under a hundred bucks, what else can I say?

Cons: The motherboard I bought with it did not support 45 nm procs (vendor site said all 775 chips, but their support said otherwise). Not really a con, but still a caveat to be aware of with this chip.

Overall Review: Just make sure your mobo supports 45 nm CPUs.

Pros: Great Overclocking ability Combined with a GIGABYTE GA-EG31M-S2 and 4 GB G.Skill 800 GHZ, this is a fantastic budget machine. It is running Prime95 stable at 3.5 GHz and 1.31V with a 1333 FSB (10.5 x 333)

Cons: None

Overall Review: I had it running fine at 3.8 GHz but failed Prime 95 at reasonable voltages. I also added an Asus 9600GSO really cheap. Runs all the latest games great at very high settings. Not bad for the low-end Core2 on stock cooling. The box HSF is quiet and perfectly adequate for this CPU

Pros: Excellent overclocker, got mine to 3.6ghz with 1.3vcore. Temps never go above 50c with orthos cpu stress test, with stock heatsink. Could probably OC higher but my motherboard(g31m-s2l) is holding it back.

Cons: Small cache, not that big a deal considering the price.

Overall Review: System: E5200@3.6ghz, G31m-s2l, 2x1gb OCZ, 9600GSO, 160gb WD, Antec psu, Tech station. 3dmark06 score of 12k.