Buy Intel BX80571E5300 E5300 Pentium Dual-core Processor - 2.60 GHz,2MB Cache,800MHz FSB,Socket LGA775,45 nm,3 Year Warranty,Retail BoxedIntel BX80571E5300 E5300 Pentium Dual-core Processor - 2.60 GHz,2MB Cache,800MHz FSB,Socket LGA775,45 nm,3 Year Warranty,Retail Boxed Product Description:
- Processor socket: Socket 775
- Box: Y
- L2 cache: 2 MB
- Processor clock speed: 2600 MHz
- Processor family: Pentium Dual-Core
Product Description
The Intel Pentium processor delivers great desktop and mobile performance, low power enhancements, and multitasking for everyday computing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
By Baldy Dave
I bought this processor as part of a Home Theatre PC build (using a Shuttle SG33G5 Barebones PC) for a family member. Out of the crate it runs coolly and gives very usable HTPC performance for the 50 quid I spent on it. If you are using Vista or Windows 7 I would recommend at least 2GB of memory to partner the processor, otherwise the E5300 really won't be able to show what it is capable of.However the real beauty of this processor is how you can increase its performance through overclocking. Less than 5 minutes tinkering with the computer BIOS had the Shuttle PC running happily at 3.0 GHz and it's system/CPU fan never rose above 1000RPM (quiet) during normal day-to-day use. Really hammering the processor made the fan speed up a bit (1800RPM) but this was using a system stress test program and you would be very unlucky to stretch a HTPC this far during normal use.The 3GHz overclock is pretty mild compared with what can be achieved. I had the Shuttle System running at just under 3.2 GHz but the fan started to become noisy and the cheap DDR800 memory I was using reached it's limit and occasionally blue-screened Windows 7 during system stress-testing. Using a good motherboard, improved CPU cooling and better memory will easily enable this cracking little processor to run at 3.4GHz and above. A search on the Internet will provide adequate proof of that. Anyway I backed-off the Shuttle system to 3GHz as it runs coolly, quietly and reliably at this speed and is more than adequate to give great Home Theatre PC performance using Windows 7.In summary, the E5300 is a cracking budget processor that can easily be tweaked to give performance that belies its low price. I think it's a fantastic choice as the basis for a Home Theatre PC build, or a budget gaming PC (partnered with an appropriate video card). Buy with confidence!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Dr. Ernest J. Hammond
I bought this CPU for my first DIY computer build. I wasn't sure exactly what would be in the box, so for info you get the CPU, a cooling fan with heatsink, and also a pre-applied wad of thermal paste so you won't need to buy that.I fitted it to a Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Motherboard Intel Core 2 Extreme Socket 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Gigabit Ethernet. The build went fine and it powered up first time. I find the performance of the Intel E5300 very impressive, given it is (just) a two core. I'm using an ancient PNY Verto graphics card (just a PCI one, not a PCIe) but even so I can run two screens, Google Earth in 3D drifting mode, a YouTube video, a real-time dealing platform with multiple graphs, my emails, other browser windows etc, all without a noticeable degradtion in perormance. Well, a bit of jitter if you drag a window, but that's about it. No jerky video or sound dropouts.I can recommend it. I don't think you will be disappointed in this budget priced, but far from budget performance, CPU.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By G. Robertson
I bought this CPU for my first PC build (from another source, however).Using it in conjunction with an Asus P5KPL-AM SE board (cheap!) and 2GB of DDR2 800MHz memory, it seems very good at multitasking. Running multiple anti-spyware scans, virus scans, Google Earth with rapidly rotating globe, iTunes playing video and web browsing simultaneously poses no problem at all.For the price, this is a real bargain and more than suits my requirements.Edit: during the couple of years since I bought this, I've upgraded just about every component to the point that I had enough spare bits to resurrect my original machine. With the same Asus motherboard, this CPU and memory I added an HD5770 graphics card and the computer can run Skyrim on high setting, be it at a resolution of 1366 x 768. Not bad at all.
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