(no problems but I wouldn't feel right giving Intel a 10)

Installation w/ heatsink onto the motherboard took longer than the OS install - heatsink is a tad tricky to press on and the conductive film is one piece so you have to try not to screw it up...I messed it a bit but I think it's alright.

Debian figured everything out a-ok, no troubles.

No problems except for the overheating ( thses things are nukes )

have tried Fedora 3 and Mandrage 10.1 with no problems at all. the heatsink is a bit cumbersome to install ( too darn huge !! )

I changed heatsink with one from Cooler Master: it's easy to install, very silent and it freezes the CPU!!!

Excellent processor.

it does work

This super-processor does the work!

I deducted 4 points only for its age and no other reason. A newer processor should be looked at first before this one, but besides that this processor runs great.

From this site.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...umd-820_3.html

This processor runs about 43.6 watts when idle, and up to 128.9 watts under max workload.

I'm running this on an E-machines T5048. The specs say 3.06Ghz processor, but I think the processor mentioned here is the one in the machine. But I digress.

Anyway, I have been using this computer for quite some time now and it seems incapable of running Linux Kernel 3.

I noticed this when I tried to upgrade Ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10. Machine would simply 'not boot'. I tried many other 'recent' LIVE CDs such as Mint, Crunchbang. Same result. Live CD would not run, or (if it did let me install) the machine would stall on 'Waiting for /dev to fully populate'.

So after some troubleshooting (to rule out either a bad hard drive or a bad CD/DVD Burner, I decided to install the older version of Ubuntu and go with an LTS, which is 10.04

Machine is running fine, has given me no issues yet. I have also been doing a lot of searches to check compatibility of P4 processors with linux 3.x kernel and have (so far) found no conclusive reason 'why' I cannot run a modern (3.x) kernel on this PC.

In summary, if you're using a machine like this, just remember you have options for what Linux distro you want to run. However, you may have to run an older version if you experience what I did. But hey, at least its better than purchasing a new PC. For now.

[[UPDATE]] I was able to determine that ACPI must be off in order to boot kernels beyond 2.6.x
Once I figured out how and where to turn it off, I was able to install a more modern distro.

I installed (at first) Crunchbang 64, but under no particular load or stress, the CPU would complain in conky,
going back and forth between 0 and 100%. Web browsers Iceweasel and Chromium could each max out the CPU if more than 4 tabs were opened.

Currently now running the 32 bit Crunchbang and it is far, far less CPU-hungry on this machine.
Cheers,
Adam

Cpu is in a HP DC7600S business desktop that was retired at work. Put in 2x1GB of ram and installed Ubuntu. This machine was orignally certified for use with SUSE 9.x. Everything runs well including suspend and hibernate. Cpu handles the workload of general surfing, youtube etc well. Tried Salix and Mint LXDE versions of linux. They worked flawlessly as well.

adamt222 thanks for sharing your solution to run the linux kernel 3.0 (and beyond) in this model of P4 processor.
In various posts this issue is commented, but I was unable to find a workaround. Disabling the ACPI works fine to me.