Low wattage Socket 775 CPU advise please

[Doosht]

After a low wattage socket 775 cpu and wondered which are the best to go for. Needs to be budget pricing.

Cheers!

 

[Big.Wayne]

Any 45nm Core 2 Duo chip should do the trick, they undervolt nicely if your motherboard supports low adjustable vCore!

 

[Doosht]

Thanks for that. E8400 and Core2Duo not really budget chip though. Any celerons?

 

[Big.Wayne]

I think you will find an E5200 to your liking, its listed as a Pentium but is in fact a Core 2 Dup Wolfdale with 2Mb cache.

 

[Doosht]

great, i will look into that one! Cheers

 

[uk_unbeliever]

That's a nice job on that e8400! Got mine @ 1.26v 3.6ghz. I'm rubbish at working this out, but anyone got a ball park estimate of the cost of power saving if able to get it down to 0.96?

 

[Big.Wayne]

You just need to buy yourself one of these power meter jobbies and check the readings yourself (before/after undervolt) and then just do the maths based on what you pay per kWh.

 

[mjones1]

a e5200 sounds like the chip for you, under-volt well(if your motherboard supports IT) and if you ever need the extra power you can clock it to 3.5ghz easily.

 

[Doosht]

this looks like 65w though after investigation. Ive just found a celeron 430 440 is only 35w. Surely this is a better alternative?

 

[Big.Wayne]

An E5200 won't use much Wattage when Undervolted, and still be a very capable processor!

The question is will you be using a motherboard with adjustable vCore that can be lowered?

 

[marc2003]

Ive just found a celeron 430 440 is only 35w. Surely this is a better alternative?

i have one of those. picked mine up on the MM a few months back when i was desperate for any old s775 cpu to get my pc up and running again. as i don't game anymore, it's absolutely perfect for normal windows usage. it wasn't until it turned up i realised it could run 64 bit windows and is basically a single core e2160. so it clocks like a trooper too.

 

[Doosht]

i have one of those. picked mine up on the MM a few months back when i was desperate for any old s775 cpu to get my pc up and running again. as i don't game anymore, it's absolutely perfect for normal windows usage. it wasn't until it turned up i realised it could run 64 bit windows and is basically a single core e2160. so it clocks like a trooper too.

this sounds like just the job!