Tom's Hardware overclocks a low-budget Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 (1.8GHz), and pits it against a Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66GHz) and a Core 2 Duo E6850 (3.0GHz). You'd be surprised with the results!
"The overclocked Pentium Dual Core made an excellent impression in most of the benchmarks, although it cannot beat the powerful Core 2 Duo CPUs with their 4 MB L2 cache in the gaming benchmarks and WinRAR. In fact, the Pentium Dual Core clocked at 3.2 GHz can compete with the Core 2 Duo E6750 in many of our benchmarks. Don't forget that we're talking about a $89 processor. It is safe to say that this product offers by far the best bang for the buck ever - never before could you get so much performance for so little money. But you don't have to mind going into overclocking." [Tom's Hardware | $89 Pentium Dual Core that Runs at 3.2 GHz]
They used a Gigabyte P35-DS3P motherboard using the Intel P35 chipset, Patriot PDC1G3200 XBLK 2x 1024 MB DDR2-800 (CL 4-4-4-12 2T) RAM, Zotac GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB GDDR3 (1600 MHz) graphics card, and an Enermax EG565P-VE ATX 2.01 510 Watt PSU.
Wow. I like.
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