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Digit-Life Mid End CPU Shootout

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/cpu/intel-pentium-e2140-2160.html

AMD definitely has competition at the low end at this point. Intel has best performance per dollar per watt, hands down.

Overall Normalized Performance:
Core 2 E4400 (2.0GHz) - 109
Pentium E2160 (1.8GHz) - 96
Athlon BE-2350 (2.1GHz) - 95
Pentium E2140 (1.6GHz) - 87

Idle Power:
Athlon BE-2350 (2.1GHz) - 17W
Core 2 E4400 (2.0GHz) - 12W
Pentium E2160 (1.8GHz) - 12W
Pentium E2140 (1.6GHz) - 12W

100% Load Power:
Athlon BE-2350 (2.1GHz) - 37W
Core 2 E4400 (2.0GHz) - 32W
Pentium E2160 (1.8GHz) - 28W
Pentium E2140 (1.6GHz) - 27W

Current Street Price ( http://www.mwave.com ):
Core 2 E4400 (2.0GHz) - $119
Athlon BE-2350 (2.1GHz) - $99
Pentium E2160 (1.8GHz) - $87
Pentium E2140 (1.6GHz) - $69

Performance/Dollar/Watt at 100% (x1000):
Pentium E2140 (1.6GHz) - 46.7
Pentium E2160 (1.8GHz) - 39.4
Core 2 E4400 (2.0GHz) - 28.6
Athlon BE-2350 (2.1GHz) - 25.9