Pentium Dual Core E5800: Intel

Mediocre. A dual-core without HT in 2010 was already obsolete. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Crysis were practically unplayable due to constant stuttering. The Core i3-530, with its 4 threads, was roughly 30-40% faster in video encoding (Handbrake). The E5800 was a sprinter, not a marathon runner.

Excellent for its price. At 3.2 GHz, the Core 2 architecture could still beat a first-gen Core i3-530 (2.93 GHz) in purely sequential tasks like legacy gaming (e.g., StarCraft II , CS 1.6 , GTA: San Andreas ). The higher clock speed overcame the architectural advantages of the newer Nehalem chip in these scenarios. intel pentium dual core e5800

The E5800 did not roar into retirement. It simply ran out of frequency headroom. At 3.2 GHz stock, with air cooling pushing 4.0 GHz, the 45nm process had given everything it had. The Pentium name, once a symbol of flawed brilliance (P4), then of dumb power (Pentium D), finally found peace as a symbol of honest, affordable, and surprisingly capable computation. The E5800 is the last true Pentium. Everything that came after is just a rebranded Celeron. Mediocre