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I just found out that my motherboard had the wrong CPU multiplier so I was getting 2.0GHz instead of the full 2.66GHz. It seemed decent at 2.0GHz, I'm hoping that I'll have a chance to be more impressed now that it's where it should be. Either way the price was great for a quad-core.

JUST BUY IT

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Incredible processor for the money. Absolutely the best bang for buck CPU on the market right now. I laughed when this thing opened Photoshop in a couple of seconds. It eats anything in its path and blitzes through games. As a test, I opened about 20 applications (including Photoshop with it's heavy memory requirements) and switched quickly between programs in order to try and trip the CPU up. While I did this, I was playing music from a playlist of several thousand songs, painting/editing an image in PS, and most importantly, running Windows XP in a virtual machine inside Windows 7. 1GB RAM was dedicated to XP, along with 64MB of graphics memory. Would you believe it, there was no lag. Awesome.

I'm using it with a Gigabyte GA-P55 UD3R board, 2 x 2GB Patriot Viper II 'Sector 5' 1600MHz RAM, and Samsung's (latest) Spinpoint F3 hard drive (model HD501HJ). OS is Windows 7 32-bit. The whole thing runs beautifully! Just a heads up -- Windows 7 32-bit will only use 3.5GB RAM. No use buying more than 4GB in a 32-bit environment, and you need to make sure you buy RAM that will run at 1.65V or less. Do your homework before buying.

Had this thing doing 4GHz on the stock cooler with just a minor bump in voltage, mainly just to see how well it overclocks and scales with voltage increases. No complaints at all. The cooler will definitely be replaced as soon as funds permit. The stock Intel cooler is abysmal. I would not recommend anything but a minor OC using it. The cooler to buy for this CPU is the Prolimatech Megahalems, which isn't cheap, but those looking for superior performance need look no further. The Megahalems is the best choice.

Dynamic overclocking using Turbo Mode is excellent. The stock multiplier for the 750 is 20x. Using a Gigabyte P55 board, the multiplier goes as high as 24x when dynamically overclocking. Power consumption at idle during light tasks such as web surfing and playing music is fantastic. According to Everest, it uses just under 7 watts at idle. I feel this is an important point considering the current state of the economy. Any saving on electricity bills is worth thinking about unless you have money to burn. My sweet spot seems to be 148 BCLK (2.94GHz). At this speed, the CPU is able to dynamically overclock up to around 3.5Ghz and then lower the multiplier down to 9x when idle, which of course lowers the frequency, which of course means lower electricity bills.

Thanks, Intel, for making a great processor at a reasonable price. An i7 system running on X58 chipset would have cost a lot more. I wasn't prepared to pay the price because I am not a fool. I am more than happy with the i5 750, it's a very impressive CPU that should serve anybody well for a good few years.

powerful and fast

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A quad core that transmits and refreshes 1 bit every 2.6 billion times a second... need I explain more.

Just the best...

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I bought this processor at another store. It was an egg-culent price. With a good board, which you can get for under $140 (Asrock Extreme P55), you can easily overclocking this CPU and get it to do 3.7GHz in turbo (using 153 BCLK frequency for me)which matches the top of the line Lynchfield processor and blows away the Clarkfield processors. Get a nice cooler (Artic Freezer Pro II). My i5 750 does not go above 62C in stress tests which is where you want it. Idles at 25-31C. Don't let memory bottleneck you. Get some 1600mHz DDR3 dual channel (for the price can not beat G-Skill 4G 1600). Tweak it in Bios to get from 1333 to around 1600. I get 7.7 memory in Windows 7 experience index. Your biggest bottle neck will be the hard drive. If you don't want to go Raid 0 then get a 10,000 RPM but I got a fast 7,200 HD (WD 640 Caviar Black gets 101mB/s versus 55mB/s of others).

Note that this upgrade path may be a dead end since Intel is not planning on making any faster chips for this socket. I don't care. In a few years the Intel sandy bridge tock chip design is coming up and then all current processors will be old news.

This CPU will do everything you want fast and efficient. It is a pleasure to start up my computer and work with such a responsive chip.

Incredible speed and Value

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This processor is part of a ground up gaming build that I've done and upon completion this little baby rocks. It is very fast and will quickly prove itself as something incredibly difficult to bog down. I don't think that I have been able to push this processor to its limits yet and believe me I've tried. I wouldn't waste your money or time considering a faster 1156 processor unless you have *EVERY* possible bottleneck accounted for. Believe me you won't be dissapointed.