My mother board: Asus P5W DH-Deluxe WiFi Intel Socket 775 ATX Motherboard, Audio, PCI Express, WiFi, Dual Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0 & Firewire, Serial ATA, RAID, CrossFire Ready


Processors Supported
Intel Pentium 4
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
Intel 04B
Intel 04A
Intel 05A
Intel 05B
Intel Celeron D
Intel Pentium D
Intel Core 2 Duo
Intel Core 2 Extreme

775 socket.

please help i dont know which to buy and i need it to be around 100-300$ thks alot u guys are always big help

i also need it to be around 3.0 ghz (thats wat my games need if its a petium4) but i dont know if its different from pentuim 4 and celeron D if the ghz is different like celeron needs less ghz or w.e

well if you need 3.0GHz then I would go with the Intel Pentium D 950 Presler 3.4GHz 2 x 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor which can be found on newegg for $250 retail

this is a dual core processor and it is fairly decent with good reviews

Get the Pentium D or Core 2 Duo, you decide, cheap CPU's at http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=914 , MJ

I've been using a Core 2 Duo 6600 since the end of July; I can tell you that it absolutely crushes anything else out there, possible with the exception of the top-end AMD dual cores. Those would make a good choice as well, but since you already have a 775 motherboard, that's irrelevant of course.

Celeron and Celeron D are geared towards the budget market and not something I'd consider if I wanted a quality product. They're not bad but certainly not the best buy for anyone expecting great performance (and that's precisely what you need if you're a hardcore gamer).

Pentium 4 is at this time a thing of the past; Intel actually decided to drop the whole line some months ago. Because they knew well enough that these CPUs devour tons of power and tend to get way too hot while the performance is not what one would expect from their high clock-speeds (3GB and up).

Pentium D is nothing but two Pentium 4s glued together so it suffers from the same shortcomings;
on top of that, from a technical point of view, it's not strictly speaking a dual core processor but a pair of single cores (=less performance than one might expect).

That leaves the Pentium Extreme and the Core 2 Duo line. The Pentium Extreme falls perfectly in the line of the older Pentium 4s: it's more powerful but a real power drain (130W) that can run extremely hot (the reason for its name?) and it performs better in office related tasks than in the multimedia/gaming domain.

The choice of the future is Core 2 Duo, really. They consume only 65W, run far cooler than Pentium and deliver top performance. And don't be misled by the clock-speeds: they may look pretty low (ranging from 1,83 to about 3Ghz for the ridiculously expensive C2D 6800) but thanks to their advanced technology, even the slowest Core 2 Duo will beat a high-end Pentium - easily! I happen to be using a Pentium 4 at work and felt pretty OK with it - until I got my Core 2 Duo for home use; now I almost get depressed when I go to work...

But which Core 2 Duo is the right one for you? I would exclude the 6800 (2.97Ghz); it is twice as expensive as the 6600 (2.40Ghz) but it adds only 10% of performance. Certainly a poor choice if price/performance means anything to you. The 6700 (2.67Ghz) is more affordable but the small performance gain over the 6600 again doesn't justify the price; on top of that, it's less of an overclocker than the 6600, which can easily be pushed far beyond 3GHz (I know of one guy who ran his at 5Ghz for an experiment - and it worked but I wouldn't recommend it). So that leaves three: the 6300 (1.86Ghz), the 6400(2.13Ghz) and the 6600 (2.40Ghz). The 6400 falls right in middle and makes for an excellent, quite affordable CPU; whether you should pay more to get the 6600 depends entirely on your expectations.

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definitely, choose the Core2Duo..E6600 for example..this is what i have

Nevertheless, you can pray for installing Linux on such hardware