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2nd Hand Cpu Advice

Sounds good but I already got the Asus P5Q mobo which I purchased around 4 or 5 weeks ago now. Considering I have been using a P4 2.8 for the last 3 years I am sure I will be ok with Q9XXX series and I suppose if I was to get a 2nd hand cpu for around the £150 rather than a new one it would be purhaps a better option for me to go down, and the extra money that I save from not buying a new one will pay for my Graphics Card.

My first option originally was to buy a E8500 rather than a Quad core I can get one of them for £150 brand new. Either way I go it will be a damn site better than what I have got at the moment. I can see your point about the new i range cpu's, and perhaps it should have been something I should have looked at more before setting out to build my new PC. I just presumed that the new cpu's would be a lot more to buy and the board would also be a lot more expensive, which is why I set out to go for 775 socket in the first place.
 
Ignore that E8500, you really don't want one now. If you were going to go dual core then you should have picked up an i3 for £90 brand new.

As you already have a 775 board and memory then what you really want is a 2nd hand Q6600 for ~£90 or under, or a Q9550 for about £120 or so.

I honestly wouldn't even consider anything else, they are the two quad core gems of the 775 era.
 
Yes I am liking this advice, just been looking at the Asus P6T Delux board and I am very surprised how cheap it actually is. I done a bit of research and found that the reason why it was so cheap is that it came with a fault regarding the SAS Ports on it, hence the reason for it coming down in price and them making a version 2 of the board. But all in all who really needs them, so it's a damn good board if ever I seen one for that kinda money.

For overclockers there is no doubt in my mind at all that the new i range cpu's are the way to go without a doubt, and to be quite honest I am so surprised at how the older Core 2 Quad's are still holding there price, it's ridiculous to say the least in comparison to the new chips.

I could in fact go down this road if I wanted to because all I would have to replace is my mobo, as I have sent my memory back for a refund. But I would feel entirely guilty because for one thing I have just recently built my son in law a new PC using the Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, and I told him exactly what a pleasure of a board it was to work with, to which it was, and it sparked me into the whole process of upgrading my own PC with this board.

I watched a video on Youtube about 3 weeks ago with some woman who was like someone out of Tomorrows World if anybody can remember that TV program from years back. She was there to prove a point about overclocking, and using an E8500 dual cpu she proved that it could do exactly what any Quad Core could do on the market and had it running at something like 4.85Ghz and stable. God knows what she was using for cooling but I think it was something like Liquid Nitrogen and it ran every top video editor and every top game with total ease. Now this was all very well but the PC she was using looked like a pile of junk scattered all over the floor. I want something that fits nicely inside a case not something that looks like an eye sore.

For what I use my PC for I do not need extensive overclocking at all, as a matter of fact before I came here I was dead against overclocking, but now I see it as more of a good thing rather than anything bad, and it does make sense, especially with the new i cpu's there is no doubt about it. The whole purpose of me getting an E8500 in the first place was due to the fact that it was a 3.16Ghz cpu at stock I had no intention of overclocking it. But now I see the theory in say getting a Q6600 which is a 2.4Ghz and overclocking it into say 3Ghz or 3.4Ghz as long as it's safe to do so, and it can handle it.

To be honest if I could get a Q9550 or Q9560 I would be happy with them at 3.4Ghz which is certainly enough to run the sort of software I am into. I am not into gaming at all. The only new game I will buy when it comes out will be Thief 4 because thats the kind of game I really enjoy playing. So I do not need to be going up to 4Ghz at all for my purposes.
 
DO NOT buy any new 775 stuff, ever.
It's gotta be 2nd hand and better be under 80-90 for CPU and under 50for board.
Could also get a similar AM3 setup for around same price but it all depends on what you currently have, what you want to use the PC for and what is your budget.


Regarding the fan, I'd never use a stock one even if I underclocked the CPU below its rated speed, simply because of the noise and temp especially now that a half decent quiet cooler can be had now for around 20quid new and if you want you can get a 2nd hand TUNIQ/TRUE/Zalman for around 15-20.
 
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I followed the advice here and finally took the plunge and got a second hand Q9550 for £118 also included with it is gonna be either the original heatsink and fan if he can find it, or if not an Artic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 Custom Cooler. Not sure how you rate these coolers, but either way I could perhaps sell them and get something more appropriate to which I would like to hear some suggestions if you could please. I see a few mentioned there among PhoenixUK's post there.

Just been looking at a Western Digital Cavier 500GB SATA II 32MB Cache Dual Processor Black internal Hard Drive for my new tower. Not sure what the hell the Dual processor bit is about (I just purchased a Quad Core lol) as far as I am concerned it's an Hard Drive. Looks pretty good to me. Any suggestions of any thing better for around the £50 mark will be appreciated.
 
you don't buy an E8500 to run at stock so I would take it as a given that most pre-owned E8500's will have been overclocked. I wouldn't be too concerned about that. E8500's were top of the line core 2 duo's with a matching price tag, I would imagine that anyone owning one would know how to overclock it correctly without frying it! My only hesitation would be buying from an auction, better off buying on Gumtree where you can meet the seller face to face.

... good luck with your Q9550

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you don't buy an E8500 to run at stock so I would take it as a given that most pre-owned E8500's will have been overclocked. I wouldn't be too concerned about that. E8500's were top of the line core 2 duo's with a matching price tag, I would imagine that anyone owning one would know how to overclock it correctly without frying it! My only hesitation would be buying from an auction, better off buying on Gumtree where you can meet the seller face to face.

... good luck with your Q9550

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Cheers and thank you, luckily enough I did get to meet the seller face to face, as I was watching 8 sellers on ebay with the same cpu. I let 6 of them pass by because of the way they was advertised, only 2 of them caught my real attention, one I was outbid on and the last one was from a chap who lives literally 10 minutes away from my house. If I never won the bid I would have seriously sold my mobo and gone for the Asus P6T Delux Palm with a brand new i7 920.

Having said that in winning the bid and getting the cpu at that price allows me to comfortably get my Graphics Card with the cash I have saved. I have also got my refund from the Kingston Memory I sent back, so that I will now be able to get the 2 x 2Gb modules. All I need now is my hard drive, which I will be sending for, so that come next weekend I can finally build my new PC. (well I say new, but now I have a second hand cpu lol)
 
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