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The Clarkdale Core i5 and Core i3 CPUs are worthy successors to the Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo and if you're looking to buy a new Intel system, there's really no way you ought to be looking at Core 2 chips any more, especially as the i3-530 expected to come in at under £100, while offering Q6600 levels of performance. In fact, paired with a good, cheap overclocking motherboard, we can see the i3-530 being a great budget buy. At 3.5GHz, it's quick and of course, it has excellent power consumption figures. It puts AMD's cheap CPUs under serious pressure, and we wouldn't be surprised if AMD needed to resort to a price cut to make its CPUs as attractive as they were prior to Clarkdale's arrival.

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