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    Is the CPU bad or the Motherboard?

    Just today I bought an Intel E6600 with an Asus P5N-E SLI from Micro Center. Well, I came home and plugged everything in, and dang, the thing won't power up. The fan moves for about a millisecond before stopping. If I take out the CPU from the mobo and try, the CPU fan starts just fine...
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    Is AMD X2 5600+ just a bad overclocker?

    So I have an AMD X2 5600+ processor paired with my Abit NF-M2 nView motherboard. I have air cooling; I am using Zalman's CNPS9500 AM2 heatsink/fan and artic silver 5. For some reason, this CPU just won't overclock more than 200 MHz. The farthest I can go is 3.0 GHz stable from 2.8 GHz...