Running this past you guys just in case, as I ran out to Microcenter on a 60 min drive and picked up a E5700 to put fiances box. Took out her old Dual core 2.0ghz and put this in and it wont even POST now. Fans all working, power is flowing, video card is working.
Swapped back the old cpu and it works fine. Is there anything else i'm missing or is it safe to say this cpu is a piece of shit?
The CPU was only $50...i'm thinking im just going to buy her a AMD board, CPU, and some RAM tomorrow even if it costs an extra $150-200. Never had any issues with AMD, had two now with Intel.