Pros: Overclocks extremely well even with a stock heatsink, provides excellent performance compared to ALL other processors and good price.

Cons: Some people have some misconception such as it is slower because of a 2mb cache.

Overall Review: This processor is fantastic. If you make sure that when your overclocking this processor, that you overclock your FSB on your motherboard to around 335-355mhz, you can achieve excellent cpu clock speeds. Right now, on a Gigabyte P965 motherboard, I have my 2.13ghz conroe overclocked to 2.88ghz with only a .30 volt increase through the bios and a 345mhz clock speed my motherboards FSB. Under load it operates at 48 degrees Celcius. I have experienced no slowdown or lockups either, whether marathon gaming, video rendering, or music creating. An Intel rep told me specifically that this IS the processor to buy because for 60 percent the cost, with a simple overclock, you can achieve E6800 speeds and performance.