Need a 775 replacement CPU!

[peanutismint]

I bought a Core 2 Duo CPU from member's market about a year ago. Have only just been in a house big enough to have a PC set up (laptop til then!!) and it seems the CPU is DOA. I'm not too fussed, it's probably my own fault for taking so long to use the flipping thing! but anywho, long & short of it is, I need another socket 775 CPU. My mobo is an ASRock 4Core1333-FullHD which supports:

LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme / Core™ 2 Quad / Core™ 2 Duo / Pentium® Dual Core / Celeron®, supporting Quad Core Yorkfield and Dual Core Wolfdale processors

I'm using the machine for music recording so don't need a massive amount of CPU power, not looking to spend LOADS, either - for reference i think the 2GHz chip I bought from MM was £40?? But if the board supports bette chips, perhaps I'd do well to go for a quad core or something? I don't know....

If anyone could suggest a good choice of chip, please let me know.

You must keep all trade discussion within the Members Market.

 

[peanutismint]

Cheers Vox; yeah I already have a cooler and I'm not planning to overclock but I suppose it can't hurt to have the option! £80 is more than I was looking to spend, but good to have an idea of an upper window.

Will stick a note on the MM see if anyone bites!

 

[peanutismint]

Hmmm ok! will look into quad. If not that, are there any Duos you would favour?

 

[peanutismint]

I'm 95% sure....everything powers up, fans, hard drives, PCI cards, but system won't boot. Nothing onscreen, not even a flicker. Took it to a repair place (same building where I work) and they tried just the CPU in one of their systems, and it wouldn't boot either, so unless it's a combination of things...at the moment I'm hoping it's just the CPU.

I should probably mention that whilst I say DOA, I just mean it's NOW dead, not that it never worked - I quickly put it in another machine at work as soon as it arrived just to check it and it seemed to work fine, but then as I say, it sat in its box a cupboard in my tiny flat for a year, until a few weeks ago when I moved house....

 

[peanutismint]

Cool, thanks for that advice - will include the 6300 in my search.

Nah, I'm more than happy to try another used chip, in fact I've already posted in the wanted section! Maybe it should be once bitten twice shy, but this is the first thing I've bought from MM which has failed....and hopefully the last!

 

[peanutismint]

Wow, detailed! I don't even know what most of that means (I assume the different voltages are overclocked speeds??) but at least it's proved the chip is ok.

Thanks so much! For those of you who don't know, Big.Wayne PM'd me and offered to test the chip out for me - and I'm hugely grateful. Random acts of kindness really do exist in real life!

So now - who'd like to test my motherboard??!

 

[peanutismint]

Hey mate, got the chip back, stuck it in my machine - booted up first time!!! I'm not sure what happened!! I mustn't have had it seated right....although I did re-seat it several times!! Weird!!

Thanks for the OCing tip - I'd love to give it a go, but i'm worried about heat issues... Can I ask what cooling method you were using? I'm using a stock Intel cooler - I wanted to get something fancy but the guy in the shop said that in his opinion I'd be wasting my money getting anything else as the differential between coolers is nominal.... I didn't want to believe him, but I've never known a shop salesman to favour the cheaper option so I figured maybe he was onto something??!

Anyway, it seems like my chip is running at 60-65° when idle (around 80° per core)....a far cry from your temps of 45° per core when OC'd!! Any suggestions? I guess case fans don't really help the CPU much, right?? Especially as I'm trying to keep noise down in my system....Would you spring for a MASSIVE heatsink/fan combination?

 

[peanutismint]

Hahah thanks for that, yeah I thought it was running a bit hot..... Probably just haven't fitted the HS properly; will have another go tomorrow. You're right about those push pins - dead fiddly!

Funnily enough, I have an Antec 300! It's got 1 x intake drawing air over the HDDs and 2 x large exhausts in the back, so the case temps are somewhere around 25° Much better!

As I say I'll have another look at the HS tomorrow; may have just come undone...failing that I'll check out one of those heatsinks. Bargain!

Thanks again mate for the continued help!!

 

[peanutismint]

McstylisT, I think dropping £130 sheets on a LGA775 quad core isn't a wise suggestion!

peanuts on a tight budget and even if he wasn't it would work out better swapping him over to the LGA-1156 platform!

Hahah, what he said! Plus, now that it's booting up and all happy (despite some slightly major heat issues...) I think that's this thread made redundant! Thanks everyone for all the input tho.