There isn't much to tell here, be careful when installing the CPU! After connecting all necessary power cables, you can power up your system. For our review we used

• Motherboard: Asus M2N32 WS Pro Bios 1601 (Nvidia 590SLI)
• Case: Thermaltake Soprano
• VGA: MSI 7600GT Silent (stock clocks)
• Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream GXS600 SLI-Ready
• Memory: 2x1GB Crucial PC2-8000 (400MHz@ 4-4-4-8-2T-2.25V)
• HDD: WD 800JB 7200RPM
• Monitor: Viewsonic 19" LCD VP930b (1280x1024 resolution)
• Operating system: Windows XP SP2 with all latest updates installed
• Drivers: Nvidia Forceware v163.71

We used a variety of benchmarking software to measure the performance of each processor:

• Sisoft Sandra XII
• Everest Lavasys Ultimate Edition 2007
• SuperPI Mod v1.5XS
• PC Mark05 v1.2.0
• 3D Mark06 v1.2.0
• ScienceMark 2
• POV 3.70 beta15
• CineBench R9.5
• CineBench R10
• SysMark 2007 Preview
• WorldBench 6 Beta 2
• x264 Benchmark
• Lost Planet DX9 Demo

After installing the CPU we can get more information using CPU-Z

and of course Everest Ultimate Edition 2007: