Intel Core Duo Shall i Sell or keep?

[Colbaker]

Hi, I have a bit of a dilemma, I have aquired an intel core duo 2ghz T2500 cpu and am stuck on weither i should sell it or use it, I was thinking that maybe i should use it in my file server/media pc which currently has a socket 478 3.4ghz HT Cpu in it.

Would it be more worth my while selling the chip and using the money elsewhere or do you think i should use it?

Thanks

 

[Justintime]

Hi, I have a bit of a dilemma, I have aquired an intel core duo 2ghz T2500 cpu and am stuck on weither i should sell it or use it, I was thinking that maybe i should use it in my file server/media pc which currently has a socket 478 3.4ghz HT Cpu in it.

How're you gonna get it working in that board? Unless you change boards to a socket 479 board such as the Asus N4L-VM DH you're not gonna get far. Might consider selling off the 478 3.4 rig and building a nice new media PC with that Core duo, cooler and faster and fairly overclockable.

 

[Colbaker]

Obviously i would buy a new motherboard, Can't really build a smaller form factor media pc though as it is also used for a file server and has nearly 10 hard drives in it all Raided, im even thinking about getting a stacker for it, I do like the idea of overclocking it though, Im also not sure how much i will get for it.

What would everybody else do?

 

[daven1986]

sell your current rig and use the money to make a monster?

 

[manveruppd]

sell your current rig and use the money to make a monster?

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Sorry

 

[mrthingyx]

Hi, I have a bit of a dilemma, I have aquired an intel core duo 2ghz T2500 cpu and am stuck on weither i should sell it or use it, I was thinking that maybe i should use it in my file server/media pc which currently has a socket 478 3.4ghz HT Cpu in it.

Would it be more worth my while selling the chip and using the money elsewhere or do you think i should use it?

Thanks

Difficult one. The T2500 is a very nice chip to sling in a desktop computer but native RAID support on pretty much all the motherboards for Skt479 that I've seen has been limited to two or four SATA drives.

If you have third-party controllers, however (and, as you have ten HDs, I'm assuming you do... ), then it's just a matter of choosing the right board for you. AOpen do some very nice ones that have a lot of desktop functionality to them, but it's entirely up to you.

If you sold your chip, you'd probably get around £150 or so for it if you were lucky. Also, if you were to upgrade the motherboard, the T2500 will need DDR2 RAM which is another £120-odd on top of what will probably be a pretty steep motherboard price (can be anything up to £150 for the blighters). But then, buying a Conroe-based system would set you back £100 for the motherboard, £120 for the RAM, too, and then another £150-200 for the chip. And then the performance wouldn't be that much of an upgrade over your current system. Assuming you can sell your T2500, the 'upgrade' would cost the same either way you choose to do it, although the new system would consume more power (the T2500 effectively runs on squirrel's tears) but with 10 HDs, I don't know whether that would count for much anyway.

I'd have a punt in Seller's Market to see if I could get a good price for the chip, tbh, and take it from there. If nobody comes up with hte asking price then it probably won't be worth it.