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The only reason I'm wondering though is for reduced power consumption and better processing capabilities. The Core2 is only a 65w TDp with two cores and the Pentium 4 is a single core 85W chip. I would attempt it myself and get a solid answer, but I fear for repercussions, such as a dead motherboard or processor

Recently, I've decided to bring my old Dell Dimension E510 back to life and make it into a Linux Box. Everything's in working order with the old motherboard and Intel Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, but that's not quite good enough. The motherboard is a Dell Connolly e187242 and Specs say it can only support Pentium 4s and Ds. If everything else matches up however (memory, Front Side Bus, Socket etc.) Will a Core2 Duo E4500 still be compatible in the motherboard? If I were to attempt to make it work, would there be consequences?

Slowly... I can hear it... The hard drive in my laptop will die soon... That is why I need a good solution for an SSD as I've been taking my laptop out a bunch lately and an old hard drive is terrible for battery life. Are there any cheap SSDs that won't die instantly? I've already looked at Samsung 850 Evos for around $95 Are there any cheaper solutions? Everything I come across on Youtube and other forums are just enthusiast grade drives, not really meant for budget minded.

I recently got an XFX R7 240 and it's no less than any other R7 240 out there. However once that fan gets going, it's going, and can be pretty noisy, even for a weak GPU like the 240. This can be many things, as just about everything in my system is overclocked to high hell, including that poor little graphics card, leaving internal temps around 75 degrees under load. One brand to definitely checkout is HIS. Their cards usually have great coolers and they aren't well known. I can't say anything in the world of the R9 series of cards as those are way out of my price range. Usually HIS pimps out their cards. An example would be their R7 240, Sporting up to 2GB of GDDR5 and an enormous cooler, handling the most extreme overclocks of 1000Mhz+ at around 75 degrees. I only got XFX because of their $20 rebate, not worth it.

I've recently acquired an old Dell Vostro 200 with a Core2 Duo E4500. The motherboard is an LGA775 socket. I also found an old machine in my neighbor's trash (They were moving, I wasn't randomly going through my neighbor's trash >.<) that housed a Core2 Duo E6600. All of the specs match up except the socket, the E4500 is LGA775 and the E6600 is PLGA775 Is there a major difference in these sockets? The E6600 still fits in the socket on the board. I couldn't find a clear cut answer online, but I just want to make sure that there won't be any sort of electrical or socket issues.

Opps! I'll edit that now. I played all of the games at resolutions of 1600x1200 with no Anti Aliasing.

I decided that I wanted to make a budget rig to attempt to counter Linus' and Luke's build. A budget of $300 and a time-frame of one month to buy the parts and build. I made the mistake of buying ALL brand new parts. After Scrapyard Wars, I felt rather defeated in terms of hardware. No parts were provided by suppliers, everything was my own money. Here's the build, price doesn't include HDD or Optical Drive (Some parts had good sales like the PSU, Case, and RAM) Parts list: Motherboard: GIGABYTE F2A78M-D3H APU- AMD A8-7600 RAM- 8GB GSkill RipJaws 2133Mhz DDR3 PSU- Corsair CX430M HDD- Old 500GB laying around Optical Drive- Old LG DVD Rewritable Case- Sentey GS-6000r GPU- Integrated Kaveri GPU (Will be expanded to an r7 260x later on) The machine achieves solid frame rates in games I love to play, a solid 60 fps on medium in Call of Duty BO2, I can bump it up to high and get a good 35 to 45 fps. In Far Cry 3, I get about 45fps on medium setting with no noticeable fluctuation, even during intense explosions. Battlefield 4 was also advantageous due to Mantle. The chip sat above most others with a solid 60 fps on high. Finally, where my machine started to fall back, Far Cry 4 achieved a mere 25-35fps on medium if I was lucky, usually in the 20-25 range. Finally Finally! In 3dmark Firestrike, the machine only achieved a 1265 on the regular demo, only getting 8-12fps. Thus, my attempt at a $300 PC was lackluster, probably due to some poorly picked parts. For $350 I could've based the system around an A10-7850K, giving me better performance. With this, I could've overclocked the memory to 2400Mhz, as the 7600 only supports up to 2133Mhz. Looks like everyone has learned a little something from scrapyard wars, Thanks you guys! Edit-- My bad! Forgot the resolution, all games are being played at 1600x1200, nothing fancy :lol: Edit-- Just ordered a Radeon r7 240, got it for about 40 bucks. Once it gets here, expect benchmarks, obviously higher. Also Call of Duty Black Ops 2 was constrained by Vsync, I now get anywhere from 80-120fps with the previous settings.

You could game at 4K with one of those. :lol: :lol: :lol: