Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 - Core 2 Duo Wolfdale Dual-Core 2.66 GHz LGA 775 Processor - BX80571E7300

Pros: crazy cool, crazy stable, crazy overclocks. much cooler running than my old Pentium D 935, and likely uses much less power, even when overclocked.
currently i'm running 333x10 at stock voltage, and I can hardly believe the difference between 266 and 333 FSB, i couldn't go much further than 266FSB with my Pentium D, so my system was quite bottlenecked, however, since other wolfdale processors are 1333 FSB, i figured i'd give that a whirl and it's panned out perfectly. My best overclock so far has been 400x9 but i'm working on extending that figure.

Cons: I have a hard time thinking of a con for this processor. I never used the stock intel heatsink with this cpu, but I've noticed how tiny it is (smaller than the heatsink on my 8800GT), but, it might perform quite well with this low-power cpu at stock frequencies. so is this a con? you decide.

Overall Review: E7300 @ 3.33GHz and ThermalRight Ultra-120eXtreme with Arctic Silver 3 in between, and Arctic Cooling 12025PWM fan moving air. 28C idle, 35C load.

Pros: Zero.

Cons: Not only did it not work, it messed up my computer. My partitions are corrupted, and cannot be fixed. Now I am without a good computer, without money for a new one, and less then I had to start with. I am NEVER buying from newegg EVER again.

Overall Review: My mobo was 100% compatable. But when I put it in, the unit would not power on. When I put my old cpu in, all my partitions were corrupted, and the windows installation cd doesn't even work. Thanks newegg. Now I need to build a new computer.