On the bottom of the chip, to protect the pins is a small piece of plastic. This is a good idea as you want to make sure that that piece of computer hardware that was the reason you slept on the couch last night arrives in perfect condition.

Here's the stock cooler you get with the conroe. Looks alright but I am sure the enthusiasts among you will join me in saying one thing, "Stock is not cool".

The cooler I will be using for the testing here is the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 pro.

The chip just raring to go

And now without further a' do I will move onto the crux of this review, the testing.