Which processor should I purchase?

you will be able to OC with the stock HS/F, just monitor temps. you wont break any records of course, but you will be able to get a productive OC from it.

I'm not sure I understand. But the stock HSF should do fine for now if you aren't OCing.

EDIT - My OC guru (red1776) has spoken. So it shouldn't be an issue now.

I have no case, all my parts are on three different shelves, my PSU, mobo, and fan are on the middle shelf, my hard drive, optical drive, power cords, modem, and router on the top shelf, and the funniest thing is that my old fan does not fit into my new mobo so I am running my old mobo without a CPU, ram, or anything and just running a fan for my CPU on the new mobo. (I will get a pic up in like 5 min but it will be off a cell)3

But as for my question, thanks, you guys are awesome.

Sorry for horrible pic quality but its all I have atm to take em.

Here's a view from the right


A view from the left


And here's the old mobo only running the fan.

OK, so I received my Core 2 Quad today and installed it flawlessly.

The only problem I came into was that the heat sink fan combo that Intel sent me is being my motherboard, so I only clipped in 2 or 3 of the 4 clips and left the last one or two almost clipped.

Thank you so muhc guys, i can already see the difference from my old Pentium 4 POS.

Intel heatsinks are indeed scary to put on, but you really should put it on, possibly even new thermal paste, but its not necessary unless your getting high temps. I guess the same goes for the clip. Wait, your new CPU came with a heatsink+thermal paste...

Yep, it came with a heat sink, fan, and paste pre-applied onto the bottom of the heat sink. Though it is legitimately bending my motherboard. I will be getting a new heat sink, fan combo soon.

I will be creating a new thread on which Heat sink fan combo I should get.