Is a pentium 4 E, definately a D0 stepping?

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I'm looking at getting a 3 ghz prescott cpu, I hear that they changed the
stepping to make them run cooler. Any way to tell whether I'm getting a
newer one or an older one? I'll be getting it from newegg probably, where
they seem to give a bit more info than some stores.

thanks for any advice.

 

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+c0re- wrote:

> I'm looking at getting a 3 ghz prescott cpu, I hear that they changed the
> stepping to make them run cooler. Any way to tell whether I'm getting a
> newer one or an older one? I'll be getting it from newegg probably, where
> they seem to give a bit more info than some stores.
>
> thanks for any advice.

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