I have one I got from Newegg, Retail and it does fine and I find myself using it more and more, The other one has the God awful 7,000 RPM fan on it and I thought I could take it for the overclocking and testing, But their are times I just can't handle it, So if you are not going to over clock it would be hard to beat everything you get with a retail processor to save 10 bucks