My gf uses a packard bell pc(i know!) which has served her well for what she wants but unfortunately the cpu has gone up the spout. I bought a pentium 4 2.8 celeron D from fleabay to tide her over but it runs to hot for my likeing. There was a 2.8 HT cpu in there i think.

Soooooooo

Obviously im looking to get a second cpu now that doesnt give out loads of heat.

So should i be getting a 2.8 ghz 533mhz prescott or a 2.8 ghz 800mhz or a 2.8 ghz 800 mhz HT enabled.

Basically out of the 478 cpus which one should i be looking for?

Or is there any others ive missed out........... I dont mind going down to a 2.6 or a 2.4 if its really going to help.

I might just be getting paranoid as its run for years with the generic h/s/f as is, and obviously i dont want to spend loads of money on it...

Cheers Guys

one of my rigs used a CeleD 2.66 running at 2.8.  Not a massive overclock but it makes life more bearable when i was looking for a better CPU (wasnt bad anyway, i just wanted it a bit faster).  If its a heat issue then get some thermal compound.  Even the cheapy Servisol stuff from Maplin is better than those crappy heat pads that are likely already on there.

Oh, and remove the heat pad if you put compound on, they dont work well together.  Im only saying this because ive found PB stuff normally has the heatpad rather than compund.

does she use it much ? id stick with the one she has and just sort the cooling out a bit better

how hot does it run ?