New CPU help me pick

Looking for one of the Intel Core 2 Duo series of CPU's. I will not be OC much more than 3.0. So what would you guy recommend?

whats better a abit p35 or a gigabyte?

Well, I love Abit boards -- that I do. But there's one big knock on Abit that you aught to know if you don't know it already.

Their support really sucks. Terrible.

Emailing their tech support is a futile endeavor. You'll never get an answer. Phone support? That's fun too. A synthesized female voice tells you to hang up and call another number (guess they never heard of call redirect). Call that number and you get an answering machine. BIOS and chipset driver updates? Forget it - Abit is notorious for having months old stuff on their US website.

I've heard that Gigabyte is actually really good in terms of tech support (prolly the best of the Tawainese companies, unless things have really changed).

I'll prob pick up one of the new intels with the 1333 fsb in early august. Whatup seifer i think i know u from the windows board on gamefaqs, thefilipino.

What are you using this CPU for?! Some people might jump into recommending the Q6600 but if you are only a gamer, or even worse, a casual user, getting a Q6600 is more or less like buying a Lamborghini Gallardo with a 60 mph limiter (no need to say that in this case the limiter is the user )
If you want a 3.0GHz C2D for your gaming needs and other stuff, an E6400 would be the best choice; better OC-ing capabilities than the E4xxx series annd better multiplier than the E6300 keeping a reasonable price. The E4400 and 4300 are cheaper but lately, I've seen a lot of people around that got an E4400/4300 with high hopes of squeezing 3.0GHz but ended up sitting on 2.4-2.6GHz. Also don't forget that being lower binned, these chips typically will require a good voltage bump to sit stably on 3.0GHz while the E6xxx series will often get to 3.0GHz on the cool and safe, stock Vcore

Dont get any Intel, wait for quad Phenom a real brand!

E6420 for 4MB Cache and the 8x multiplier.

Why would a Casual gamer buy a 50$ Celeron? When they could have Performance and power for 10$ more the AMD Athlon64 x2 3600+ Which could be overclocked to match a much more powerful CPU quite easily.

60$, Athlon64, Performance!, DUAL CORE! COMPUTERS! :x !