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Highlights

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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

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    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

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    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

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