Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. When I bought that HP refurb, I was considering the Asus VW266H. Again, mine was for office work. I like the extra 120 pixels of vertical real estate, even if it is only about 2 inches more. I also considered the Samsung varieties (2433/2443 models), but...
Well, in a 24+ inch monitor, if you want 16x10, you're looking at 1920x1200. I don't think you're gonna find much out there (new at least) for under $300 with those restrictions. I recently got an HP LP2465 (24", 1920x1200, S-PVA) for just under $250 shiped from Newegg, but that was a...
So is 1.54-1.57v too much for this core on Air cooling? I've run dual instances of Prime95 for hours on end, load temps for the CPU never get above 46C, chipset stays between 45-46C as well. It's just not stable at 2.5GHz without about 1.55v (flucuates between 1.54-1.57 in CPU-z and MBM5, stays...