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it was not directed at you @deshong, it was plural, was directed at all of us. These debates have unpleasant habit of being derailed (minor offence) or increasingly overly emotional (that's bad), I have survived Amiga-Atari-PC battlefield once. Never again, never again...
Minor addition:
TDP is not a "heat", it's just misleading (but easy and comfortable for consumers) convenience. It's the work actually, therefore Watts, not Kelvins (for example).
I'd consider upgrade this i3-2100 for i5-2390T [
http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/CPUs/Int...5/i5-2390T.html ] -lower emission, more fan comfort, probably better (by minor margin) performance, or for i7-2600S [
http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/CPUs/Int...7/i7-2600S.html ] - more power but only if the heat solution is in good condition, able to take additional beating. These old i7 have rather unpleasant behaviour of hitting theirs TDP rather quickly - so the good heatsink, paste and fan is strongly advised.
Anyway HD 2000 will be the limit in any case.
Debloated (or transplanted into some Linux distro), cleaned and taken care (like given SSD), that dinosaur may be very comfortable webrowsing/email/writting (etc.) machine for another few years.
favorite quote: "When ElaineNualla is posting..I always read..Nutella. I am sorry" by Rosebine
self-claimed "lower-spec simmer"