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hey guys, i have this old office pc I've been using for awhile now. It has a Pentium d 945 at 3.4ghz, 2gb of ddr2 ram, no gpu and an old 54000rpm HD, 500w psu. I dont want to spend more then 100-150$ for upgrading or even getting a new system. I have alot of old stuff lying around, i have 4gb (2x2gb ddr2 800mhz), a hd 7770, a Kingston v300 ssd 64gb from an old rig. I plan to upgrade the pc with all these parts, only issue is i don't have a cpu. i found a Intel core 2 quad q9650 on ebay for 77$ used. Do you guys think i should go ahead and spend the money on such a old cpu? I could start to save for a brand new system, its just that i'm tight on money right now and cant afford to save alot.  Btw the mobo is asrock G31M-Vs2.

 

Please let me know any thoughts or tips you guys have and obviously if its worth it.

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god no, you can get a Q6600 in the UK for £20

q6600 is older and slower the q9650, and i live in canada not the UK

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god no, you can get a Q6600 in the UK for £20

If your worried about the motherboard it supports all of the desktop Core 2 Duo range, so its fine-its better than my P5K VM which handled a QX6850 quite well. And if you think a Q6600 is better, Q9650 spanks them.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/G31M-VS2/

 

hey guys, i have this old office pc I've been using for awhile now. It has a Pentium d 945 at 3.4ghz, 2gb of ddr2 ram, no gpu and an old 54000rpm HD, 500w psu. I dont want to spend more then 100-150$ for upgrading or even getting a new system. I have alot of old stuff lying around, i have 4gb (2x2gb ddr2 800mhz), a hd 7770, a Kingston v300 ssd 64gb from an old rig. I plan to upgrade the pc with all these parts, only issue is i don't have a cpu. i found a Intel core 2 quad q9650 on ebay for 77$ used. Do you guys think i should go ahead and spend the money on such a old cpu? I could start to save for a brand new system, its just that i'm tight on money right now and cant afford to save alot.  Btw the mobo is asrock G31M-Vs2.

 

Please let me know any thoughts or tips you guys have and obviously if its worth it.

thanks

That should be a nice upgrade.

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If your worried about the motherboard it supports all of the desktop Core 2 Duo range, so its fine-its better than my P5K VM which handled a QX6850 quite well. And if you think a Q6600 is better, Q9650 spanks them.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/G31M-VS2/

 

That should be a nice upgrade.

now that mug brought it up, i found a q6600 on ebay for 25$. I will not be OCing. Is paying 45$ more for the q9650 worth?

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now that mug brought it up, i found a q6600 on ebay for 25$. I will not be OCing. Is paying 45$ more for the q9650 worth?

Yes, definitely. With it you get the improvements of the shrink from 65nm to 45nm (eg lower power consumption), a higher clock speed, a 5% IPC difference and newer instruction sets that improve performance in newer programs.

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Yes, definitely. With it you get the improvements of the shrink from 65nm to 45nm (eg lower power consumption), a higher clock speed, a 5% IPC difference and newer instruction sets that improve performance in newer programs.

Thanks alot man, appreciate the input!

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Thanks alot man, appreciate the input!

I'm also saying this after buying my QX6850 after I bought my Xeon X5450 (which is about the same as the Q9650 except for being binned a lot higher-just for LGA771, although it can be used in LGA775 sockets with a mod). The Xeon X5450 is the same clock speed as the QX6850 and everything runs far better on the Xeon

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btw... dont get high hopes for that computer.. I'm siting on the fourth mobo  atm...  lga775 motherboards are so bad.. that probably is gonna work for a year or two .. and then its gonna die... and yes.. first one was asrock, second asrock, the third msi.. and now I'm on msi again.. so... its genuine trash

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btw... dont get high hopes for that computer.. I'm siting on the fourth mobo  atm...  lga775 motherboards are so bad.. that probably is gonna work for a year or two .. and then its gonna die... and yes.. first one was asrock, second asrock, the third msi.. and now I'm on msi again.. so... its genuine trash

What were the PSU? Even the best motherboard won't last long with bad PSU-it took a 2.2V Pentium 4 631 to kill my P5K VM. And that thing was used 24/7 from 2009-2013 for recording TV programs until analogue signals were phased out (it was being used with a PCI TV tuner card).

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If your worried about the motherboard it supports all of the desktop Core 2 Duo range, so its fine-its better than my P5K VM which handled a QX6850 quite well. And if you think a Q6600 is better, Q9650 spanks them.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/G31M-VS2/

That should be a nice upgrade.

My point is: is it 3x better? Does the q6600 or other older processors not provide better value for money?

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btw... dont get high hopes for that computer.. I'm siting on the fourth mobo  atm...  lga775 motherboards are so bad.. that probably is gonna work for a year or two .. and then its gonna die... and yes.. first one was asrock, second asrock, the third msi.. and now I'm on msi again.. so... its genuine trash

hmm you are really out of luck, i have an lga 775 board that have been working fine for the past 8 years! (old workstation board with a q6600 converted to a t.v. console 5 years ago)

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My point is: is it 3x better? Does the q6600 or other older processors not provide better value for money?

No, they don't.

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My point is: is it 3x better? Does the q6600 or other older processors not provide better value for money?

At stock speeds the q6600 has a really rough time. Get it over 3.4 and you do quite well.

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btw... dont get high hopes for that computer.. I'm siting on the fourth mobo atm... lga775 motherboards are so bad.. that probably is gonna work for a year or two .. and then its gonna die... and yes.. first one was asrock, second asrock, the third msi.. and now I'm on msi again.. so... its genuine trash

Chipset and quality play a big part with 775 boards. Better the chipset generally means a higher quality board. MSI and AsRock were very poor at that time, especially on the cheaper end. Asus and EVGA were kicking ass and taking names, Gigabyte was mediocre and Biostar was still available.

With 775 you get what you pay for.

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Chipset and quality play a big part with 775 boards. Better the chipset generally means a higher quality board. MSI and AsRock were very poor at that time, especially on the cheaper end. Asus and EVGA were kicking ass and taking names, Gigabyte was mediocre and Biostar was still available.

With 775 you get what you pay for.

too bad I dont care... these posts always go far away from what people are asking.. soo.. whatever man... its not like I dont know this.. bakwan said he's got the asrock with g31 chipset.. so.. I just said its bad... you... I dunno how are you helping him with this....

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Q6600 is not the must have quad core, just because ltt using it, its the must have cpu. And there are 2 revisions of them, the first one wasn't that good. All quads after the q6000 series runs at a newer process and faster fsb.

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btw... dont get high hopes for that computer.. I'm siting on the fourth mobo atm... lga775 motherboards are so bad.. that probably is gonna work for a year or two .. and then its gonna die... and yes.. first one was asrock, second asrock, the third msi.. and now I'm on msi again.. so... its genuine trash

All those motherboards are bad on the 775 platform, ASUS, Intel Gigabyte, Foxxcon, EVGA and XFX were the best (kind of still are) It has nothing to do with the platform but the manufacturers of the board. All my LGA 775 boards are working like champs except my 780i which appears to be a bad bios but still works but only with certain GPUs. Also I had 2 dead ASRock 775 boards and 3 dead MSI 775 based boards, both companies were bad then and have improved in quality over the years but due to my experience with them (yours also I assume) I will not buy any ASRock or MSI products new or used.

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I got my Q9400 for 50€, so search for cheaper

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btw... dont get high hopes for that computer.. I'm siting on the fourth mobo atm... lga775 motherboards are so bad.. that probably is gonna work for a year or two .. and then its gonna die... and yes.. first one was asrock, second asrock, the third msi.. and now I'm on msi again.. so... its genuine trash

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too bad I dont care... these posts always go far away from what people are asking.. soo.. whatever man... its not like I dont know this.. bakwan said he's got the asrock with g31 chipset.. so.. I just said its bad... you... I dunno how are you helping him with this....

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btw... dont get high hopes for that computer.. I'm siting on the fourth mobo  atm...  lga775 motherboards are so bad.. that probably is gonna work for a year or two .. and then its gonna die... and yes.. first one was asrock, second asrock, the third msi.. and now I'm on msi again.. so... its genuine trash

ive been using this lga 775 mobo for 6 years now and another pc also has the lga775 running the e8400 working completely fine for 5 years now. You just had bad luck man

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Its pretty crazy how these 6 year old processors are stilling running good beyond basic computing needs

Yep. Though from my experience you always want them to be at lest 3GHz at stock (19-21% bottleneck with my Xeon X5450+GTX970), with anything that's clocked higher being better of course.

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Yep. Though from my experience you always want them to be at lest 3GHz at stock (19-21% bottleneck with my Xeon X5450+GTX970), with anything that's clocked higher being better of course.

I can maybe afford to buy a better cpu cooler after buying the q9650, on that g31-vs2 mobo you think its a good idea to overclock? Keeping in mind its there is a old generic psu.

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