And don’t try to peel off the heatspreaders to make it fit. I got the heatspreader off, but I also got a RAM chip along with it. Lucky for me I bought it at my local Frys and I could take it back. 😉
I don’t see anything wrong with the Phenom X2. At idle it will be just as efficient, and they don’t really use all 95W that they are rated at since it has 2 disabled cores. It’s also pretty likely that you will be able to unlock a core or two if you want to. Not that I would in a HTPC.
