HardCOREware has posted a review on the Intel Pentium D 820 Dual Core CPU

Intel shocked the world when they announced that they are no longer aiming for 10 GHz on their Netburst CPU architecture, and instead switching to a dual core solution. Were they having trouble getting the clock speed up with reasonable power consumption levels? Or did they realize that thread-level parallelism is where computing is going in the future?

In any case, the P-D 820 is by far the cheapest way to get into dual core computing. Retailing at under $150, it is by far more affordable than any dual CPU solution AMD has. But the clock speed is relatively low, at 2.8GHz. Does the 820 have what it takes to compete with similarly priced single core processors?

Intel Pentium D 820 Dual Core CPU