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Could i Upgrade

HPTL7

HPTL7

HPTL7

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I have an old computer, it is socket 775 and has a intel pentium d 820 oc'd at 3.1ghz.
Could i buy a intel core 2 duo e8400?
The motherboard is lga775 and has fsb of 800mhz. However the core 2 duo e8400 has 1333 fsb speed. Does this matter? Can i upgrade?
Thanks.
 
Do you know the motherboard make and model?

Majority of motherboard which could take the Pentium D range could not take the latest the Core 2 duo range.
 
Unlikely an upgrade would be effective, you could try an get an older 800Mhz CPU eg. E4300 etc but they run at a slower clock speed of around 1.8Ghz. You should get one for a few ££ as they were never popular, then it boots or it doesn't

Other than that a cheap H61 motherboard (£40) , Celeron G550 (£35) and 4GB DDR3 (£30) would be a significant step up from the pentium.

Total outlay around £100 ..... there are newer platforms. Really depends what you want from the system.

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i was thinking about getting a 13 540 (£40) but it runs on 1156 i think and i cant find any mobo below £50 for it.
 
Socket 1156 is very out dated hence not many boards about at a sensible price.

Socket 1155 is current but is being superseded by 1150.

s1155 is where the best deals are, A pentium G860 @ £60 new should be a match for the I3 540 though there are plenty of s1155 second hand bargains as users upgrade.

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best part about 1156 though is being able to overclock the cpu's

you cant do that with 1155/50 non k cpu's

if you could get a cheap 1156 board you could even plop in an i5 750 quad core later on and oc it
 
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