Which are the best clocking processors?

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I have been out of the overclocking world for a long time, since the athlon xp days of clocking a 1.6ghz to 2.6ghz.....

I'm looking for a new project and it will be based around Intel chips, in specific the core 2 duo, can anyone quickly get me up to speed about whats going on with these processors, which ones are good, which aren't, which offer the best bang per buck etc.?
 
I would say the lower end Intel chips like the e2160 etc, I had an e2140 which is £35 New and comes with a clock speed of 1.6GHz got it to 3.0GHz very comfortably on a old AW9D Max board :D
 
They're all good tbh.

Even the cheapest 1.6ghz E2140 will usually do 3.2ghz. The new 45nm based ones are clocking even further than the 65nms were, with the E8400's reaching over 4ghz. The just released E7200 seems capable of getting near 3.8ghz too.

Bang-for-buck is still the E2*00 range. I got 3.45ghz from my E2140, and 3.5ghz from my E2180. Tho I got a little lucky with them.
 
The new E7200 are reporting to be good (see other thread on here)

Come 2.53Ghz with 9.5 multiplier for £86 but overclock to well past 4Ghz (dependant on cooling/mobo/ram etc)

Quads don't clock as well as dual core (but that won't bother you since your asking about dual cores)

The E8xxx series all overclock silly to over 4Ghz and with their extra cache over the E7200 they are the current fastest overclocked cpu you can get. E8400 is the "bang for buck" chip in that range
 
The E8200's clock like mad, as do the Q9300's if you fancy Quad. My E2180 and E4500 both clocked well too.
 
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