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Review on Powerful Intel I5-2310 Quad 2.80GHZ 6M Turbo Processor - BX80623I52310 by Siu Young ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

I really like the product, it fully meets my expectations.

I purchased a boxed version that included an Intel cooler in the package (on which thermal paste is applied, running into the front I'll immediately say that it must be washed immediately and put it ONLY on normal thermal paste), and at first I couldn't understand anything because the temperatures went off the scale even when I wasn't overclocking the computer. However, when I was overclocking the computer, you can see that it was 90 degrees off on tests. I spent 700 dollars on a basic Coolermaster unit, which brought the idle temperature down to 50 degrees and the load temperature up to a little more than 60 degrees. What was my surprise when, having transferred it to a new small case, I had to abandon the tower cooler? For a while, I installed my own cooler, but because before that it had already been installed, then I applied a simple thermal paste from the Cool Master cooler kit, and lo and behold, the idle temperature was 35 degrees! This is with the frequency increased to 4.4 GHz through overclocking! Although it is true that when loaded it is capable of reaching quite high speeds, I do not subject it to powerful loads for extended periods of time. When viewing a reference 4K video on a monitor with a resolution of 1920 by 1200, the temperature of the processor is between 50 and 55 degrees Celsius; however, the video does not change in any way when displaying only HD resolution; this is because the processor is processing both the percentage and the video that is built into it! There was a disparity between the price and the quality of the product at the time of the purchase.

Pros
  • A speedy processor with a significant amount of overclocking potential is capable of running at 4.5 GHz without any issues when paired with a typical cooler. It worked at 4.6 GHz despite only having a basic tower cooler and a fan measuring only 8 cm! As it turned out, the embedding of the video was acceptable.
Cons
  • Maybe only the price at the time of purchase, but even now it does not appear to have decreased in price by a significant amount.