Highlights
Quality
This came with the thermal paste too.
Worked great -no problems-no complaints-very happy !
Price
Back in its day this chip cost upwards of $1500 - now you can get it for basically 1/100th of that price.
Packaging/appearance
Note: do not forget the thermal paste.
Competitiveness
This may be a old but this what a great pcu for the price.
With a little know-how, some additional ram, a modern high-quality video card and this chip, my 8-year-old gaming machine can s... Read More
And dwm went from ~50% to ~10% consistently at 1900x1200.
Overview
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great, fast, old, good and still. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 50 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 15 2021.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
First geekout done after a few years was to windows 10 and it did fine on the e5300 that was in it but the upgrade took forever
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But after the 2016 windows update i have constantly had cpu spikes for desktop window manager dwm
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It does tend to run a little warmer than i would like but never to the point of stressing the system
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Works as intended they could stand to at least clean the heat spreader before sending it out though
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you want something even faster than whats offered by this cpu look for a q9600
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Back in its day this chip cost upwards of 1500 now you can get it for basically 1100th of that price