can you please back up you claim with at least a copiedPasted article or personal experience? If not this is just a useless spam which you just posted because you heard/read rumours from the internet/friend and you don't even know if it's real or not and just wasting our time

Non overclocking and typical ppl also don't need dual cores or 64 bit processors. Thus there is not much advantage in using X2 when the difference is negligeble. Heck, in some cases dual core can be slower for these kind of ppls. go figure....

Depends on the gadget. The original RAM/Proc meter gauge that comes with the sidebar is the usual culprit. Replace it with a third party one and you'll find out that the cpu surge every second or so will be gone

Well said, I was also quite suprised at the celeron too. I was building a budget PC for my sis and used the Celeron 3.06GHz (D346). and it was faster than my old P4 2.4 that I left at home by a mile, considering that I reformatted and reinstalled both with a new OS at the same time, and both are using 1GB RAM. And I still prefer to work with the Intel's HSF, having owned many AMD proc in the past, i still have nightmares when dealing with their HSF. At least the AM2 was an inprovement in design, but the Intel's one are still easier to install, ecspecially if you're new to making your own PC.