PC upgrade => Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R/E2160

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Hi, Ive got a PC I want to upgrade and need a little advice.

The spec is:-
mb => Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
cpu => intel pentium D core E2160/1.8GHz
mem => DDR2 ELIXIR/2x1Gb/1066

The pc is overclocked and running fine @ 3.1GHz but Im looking to go faster.

As this mb is good for overclocking what speed could be achieved from a Celeron Dual Core E3500 "LGA775" 2.70GHz (800FSB) E3500? I think this looks like the cheapest and best option at the moment, or is there something better out there? I think the mem is ok as I only really need 800/667 for this mb, so its slightly over-spec'ed, maybe could increase it in size though?

Cheers
 
If you want more I'd recommend saving up for a full replace as you could switch out the full lot for not a whole lot such as

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(as an example) that will last you better in the long run than the core2 upgrade.
 
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Hi, thanks for info and looks pretty impressive, but I'm a bit cash limited at the moment so just trying to squeeze a bit more from this setup...

Just trying to understand the differences between pentium/celeron dual core and core 2 duo cpus..

Cheers
 
yan said:
Just trying to understand the differences between pentium/celeron dual core and core 2 duo cpus..
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For the socket 775, Celeron is the lowest and the slowest architecture, Pentium D is faster, and Core2 is the fastest.

Your board can actually support even the 45nm CPU, if you got the right bios version...if not, you'd need to flash the bios to ideally the latest version. Here's a list of what CPU your board support:
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=2534

It depends of what kind of task you doing, if you want faster speed for light-threaded tasks, then you could try to get a 2nd hand E8400 E0 stepping at around £50; but if you want faster speed in heavily threaded tasks such as video-encoding, you could get a 2nd hand Q6600 G0 stepping for around £70.

Would recommend you get a 3rd party CPU cooler if you are overclocking though.
 
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So a Celeron Dual-Core E3500 2.7GHz does not have as much performance as a Pentium Dual-Core E2160 1.8GHz (although this is what I have now oclked to 3.1GHz)? They both have the same cache size but the core 2 duo cache is larger with a smaller process so is this why they are better?
Thanks
 
yan said:
So a Celeron Dual-Core E3500 2.7GHz does not have as much performance as a Pentium Dual-Core E2160 1.8GHz (although this is what I have now oclked to 3.1GHz)? They both have the same cache size but the core 2 duo cache is larger with a smaller process so is this why they are better?
Thanks
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Can't be sure unless we go look up some benchmark results for comparison, but I still think if you are upgrading from your current CPU, Core2 should be the only way to go.
 
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