Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16 Ghz
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You will want to buy your own heatsink as Intel provides poor quality heatsinks with their processors. The ASUS P5A2-8SB4W 80 millimeter Sleeve Central Processing Unit Cooler is a good choice for only $14:
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I think stock Intel heatsinks are fine if you don't plan on overclocking, i get temptures of around 30-40 degrees on computers i build with intel heatsinks underload, which is fine for a processor.
anyways ... what do you plan on using your computer for, cause the Q6600 (quad 2.4) isn't much more expensive, its like $10 more in my country (New Zealand) i donno bout yours .. but it'd definately be better at muilty tasking and 2.4ghz per core should be fine for most application
anyways ... what do you plan on using your computer for, cause the Q6600 (quad 2.4) isn't much more expensive, its like $10 more in my country (New Zealand) i donno bout yours .. but it'd definately be better at muilty tasking and 2.4ghz per core should be fine for most application