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farlow2012

farlow2012

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hi all i have managed to pick up a second hand tower up for £30 to free up more money for my own tower i want to build

medion mt 14
pentium 3.00ghz processor ( can this be upgraded?)
2 x 2gb teamgroup ddr3 ram
1tb hdd
1gb geforce 210 graphics card
windows 10 pro 64bit

processor fan a bit noisy so looking to replace that any suggestions and also wondering if be worth upgrading my ram would i notice any difference going from 4gb to 8gb,

pc is only used for internet browsing , catch up tv , and for my lad to do his homework on

thanks in advance
 
I can't find out much about it by googling. Is that socket 1155? Can you download CPU-z and get any info on the motherboard? You may be able to drop a i3/i5/i7 in it.
 
As pasty said, please let us know which pentium you're talking about. What motherboard do you have? Odds are that it can be upgraded easily. Please give us more information.
 
Have a look for used 775 CPU's,find the best and cheapest one and swop it out with what's in there now.

May as well go to 4GB RAM as well and try a small SSD to house your OS.

Download and run speccy and you'll know exactly what you are dealing with regarding your CPU and RAM.
 
Just keep an eye on the wattages and expected running temps of the CPU's you're looking at against what is in the system now or you may want a better cooler too,or if power usage is important to you for this machine.
 
could possibly get a quad core extreme or even a 771 xeon, usually cheaper, you'll need to get a mod tho to convert the 775 to a 771. easy enough to do. plenty of instructions on the web. works easy enough did it on a qnap 509.
however, you need to check your bios will recognise the xeon. its not too difficult to add the xeon cpuid to a bios, usually.
 
Before you go buying any cpu's do as I suggested and download CPU-z. We need to know more about the motherboard, especially the chipset as that will limit the choice of cpu's.
 
first of all sorry for big post im about to copy and paste everything from cpuz

CPU Name

Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5700 @ 3.00GHz

Threading

1 CPU - 2 Core - 2 Thread

Frequency

2999.84 MHz (15 * 199.99 MHz)


Multiplier

Current: 15 / Min: 6 / Max: 15


Architecture

Wolfdale / R0 Step (45 nm)

Cpuid / Ext.

6.7.A / 6.17


IA Extensions

MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T, VT-x

Caches

L1D : 32 KB / L2 : 2048 KB

Caches Assoc.

L1D : 8-way / L2 : 8-way

Microcode

Rev. 0x00000A0C


TDP / Vcore

65 Watts / 1.288 Volts


Type

Retail (Original Frequency : 3000 MHz)

Motherboard

Model

MEDIONPC MS-7633

Socket

Socket 775 LGA


North Bridge

Intel G41 rev A3

South Bridge

Intel 82801GB (ICH7/R) rev A1

BIOS

American Megatrends Inc. A7633MLN.20B (06/10/2010)

Memory (RAM)


Total Size

4096 MB


Type

Dual Channel (128 bit) DDR3-SDRAM


Frequency

400 MHz - Ratio 1:2


Timings

6-6-6-15-1 (tCAS-tRC-tRP-tRAS-tCR)


Slot #1 Module

Team Group Inc. 2048 MB (DDR3-1337) - P/N: Team--Elite-1333


Slot #2 Module

Team Group Inc. 2048 MB (DDR3-1337) - P/N: Team--Elite-1333

Graphic Card (GPU)



GPU #1 Type

NVIDIA GeForce 210 (GT218)


GPU #1 Brand

GIGABYTE Technology


VRAM #1 Type

1024 MB


DirectX

12.0

Storage (HDD/SSD)



Model #1

Hitachi HDE721010SLA330


Capacity #1

1000 GB

Display



Screen #1

Samsung SAMSUNG (SAM03D4)


Screen #1 Spec

7.2 inches (18.3 cm) / 1360 x 768 pixels @ 23-60 Hz

Miscellaneous



Windows Version

Microsoft Windows 10 (10.0) Professional 64-bit


Windows Subver.

Build 10586


CPU-Z Version

1.76.0 (64 bit)
 
budget is £100-£200 i know this might seem low but have 3 pcs in house im trying to upgrade slightly aswell as selling my ps4 and trying to save and move back to a gaming pc
 
so ive done a bit of research and from what i understand the bios release date was 2010 so any processor made before then should work. So what would be best as notice current cpu is fsb 800 and my ram is 1333 does that mean i should be looking for processors with 1333mhz fsb like 8400 core 2 duo or the quad cores

if that is the case the e8400 seems like best dual core i can find and very cheap at just £6
 
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Look's like MSI is the oem for the board and G41 is the chipset so theoretically it should take any of the 45nm dual and quad cores (last releases) for 775. So that's the E5***, E6*** Pentium Dual cores, E7***, E8*** Core2Duo's and Q9*** Core2Quad cpu's. That's provided that there are no limitations in the bios.
 
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