Sora
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Those aren't like benches I have seen and my bad I meant the X2 5600 is on par while a lot I have seen have the X2 6000 faster.
Sora is correct a few AMD X2's have bigger caches 5200,5600,6000, these are identical to FX series CPU's and perform much better than the rest of the X2 lineup I have a 5200X2 and my sotck 3Dmark06 cpu score is on par with the E6600 Futuremark - ORB - Result Analyzer
my cpu scored 2246 here R cpu scores for core 2 duo with 2.4 to 2.6 ghz which is what most E6600 R running at(E6600 will overclock much faster dont get me wrong)
In most of these cases my 5200X2 has a higher cpu score than th E6600 I am Overclocked a little from 2.66 to 2.9 so a closer comparison is look at the E6600's running at 2.6 a similar overclock to mine on my amd scores R close on these 2 cpu's and the 6000X2 vs the E6600 is no contest the 6000X2 will almost always win a cpu test a gaming FPS test is not the way to go alot of other factors(like these 2 use different mobo's) will affect the final result.I think 3dMark06's cpu test is one of the most demanding so thats what I choose to use. My specs R here got the eathquake gaming platform only change I made was to an 8800gts640 instead of the 320 Gaming computer, good price,Nvidia 8800,Nforce sli,sale,Dual core,3dmar06 score
I score over 10,000 overall on 3dmark06 with my 5200X2 and a single 8800gts640
ASUS Mobo - 139.99
MSI Mobo - 166.99
Price Difference: 27.00
AMD X2 5200+ - 169.99
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz e6600 - 235.00
AMD X2 6000+ - 239.99
AMD X2 5600+ 195.00
Price Differences:
Intel Core 2 Duo - 66.00
AMD 6000+ - 71.00
AMD 5600+ - 25.00
Original Setup:
Asus Mobo - 139.99
AMD 5200+ - 169.99
Total: 310.00
Option 1
MSI Mobo - 166.99
Intel Core 2 e6600 - 235.00
Total: 402
Price Difference: 92.00
Advantages: Can be overclocked fairly high.
Disadvantages: Replace stock cooler, low stock clock speed.
Option 2
Asus Mobo - 139.99
AMD 6000+ - 239.99
Total: 380.00
Price Difference - 70.00
Advantages: Stock clock at 3.0ghz, stable.
Disadvantages: Can not be oc'ed very high.
Option 3
Asus Mobo - 139.99
AMD 5600+ -195.00
Total - 335
Price Difference: 25.00
Advantages: Stock clock at 2.8ghz, price friendly
Disadvantages: See above
*Prices are taken from Newegg and rounded based on Taxes.
*Local retailer that I am buying parts from usually sells parts 20 USD more than Newegg.com.