Tonight I'm building two computers for Christmas. One is for my little brothers and looks like this so far: Gigabyte G41M-ES2L 2 Gigs OCZ 800mhz ram x1600 pro 512 edition (they aren't gamers so this works fine) I'm getting one that looks like this: XFX 750i SLI 4 Gigs Corsair Dominator 800mhz 8800GTS 512mb My question is what cpu is more powerful. Looking around its hard to find decent benchmarks for economy processors. Thanks alot!
According to this, the E5200 by a rather large margin (look for Pentium D 2.8GHz) and that's without an overclock. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
What these guys have said ^. It's a much newer architecture, not to mention that most clock like mofo's. Good times.