One Man's Rubbish Is Another Mans Treasure

A friend of my dad through work recently heard his pc bang and stop working. He took it somehwree to get it looked at and was told the motor in the psu was broken (very odd way to describe it, maybe he meant the fan motor).

So this guy has a new pc and gave us the old one. I took off the cpu and hsf and used a hair drier to get the cpu off the thermalpad. I expected a celeron but found it was a 2.4ghz northwood p4. Not only that but of a reasonably good stepping of SL6EF (or something similar).

Does anyone have first hand experience with these?

I detect a home server or media center.

Yes, i was thinking something along those lines.

Tell you something, my wife's system is based on a 2.4GHz Northwood processor and I am glad I don't sit at the backof her computer, as this particular processor could almost single handedly combat global warming it's so cold.

I just wish my rig would run as cold as hers.

And silence, in part thanks for a quiet and simple thermal soloution, is JUST what you need for a media centre.

If ever I make one, my wife will "suffer" an upgrade and get a Prescott and I will, as a matter of kindness, dispose of the old Northwood 2.4 by using it in a media centre.

Uhm, they overclock like hell. The only thing i can say, got one went up to 3.5 on air.