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Which cpu to go with? (Socket 775)

Probably the E6300 with a slight overclock - should hit at least 3GHz without touching voltages, etc. and has a faster FSB despite lower stock clocks and older process.

The Core 2 Quads are usually cheap these days though and far more useful for any modern OS.

EDIT: Benchmarks show the E6300 slightly faster out the box - I think I was remembering against the E5400.
 
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I was thinking e6300 too but noticed that the 5200 is 45nm where the 6300 is 65nm, both have same cache size but 6300 has like 600mhz less clock out the box but has higher bus speed.
Guessing either will be better than the celeron e3400 in it now.

Q6600 for 6 quid is another option?
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Q6600 for 6 quid is another option?
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Depending on what the motherboard supports a 45nm quad or Q6600 G0 are so cheap these days it is worth doing if you are determined to resurrect a system that old and the extra 2 cores make a vast difference with any modern software.
 
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this system is just used to test components in like gpus and bits and bobs. i will have a rummage around in the shed i saw boxes of various intel cpus some were g2020 or something but thats different socket. may not be worth buying a cpu for this since its not actively used and its just gonna test stuff.
used it to test my old gtx 260 today which is working great.
 
The E6300 dual core was popular on that socket (there were two cpus called E6300), but quickly got superceded by the Q6600 quad core. The Q6600 was popular so I'd expect you'll be able to find one.
 
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throwaway4372 said:
The E6300 dual core was popular on that socket (there were two cpus called E6300), but quickly got superceded by the Q6600 quad core. The Q6600 was popular so I'd expect you'll be able to find one.
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I've still got a bunch of Core 2 CPUs - was an amazing jump over anything before and the quad cores are still somewhat relevant today - albeit you can now get very low wattage parts with similar performance.
 
I've got some E5440s pulled from multi-socket servers - unfortunately I had no space to keep the servers :( not that they'd be worth running now. I'd swear we had a quad socket one with 5000 series Xeons but it must have been LGA1366 as I can't see any quad CPU 771 boards and it was too long ago for 2011.
 
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I've got some E5440s pulled from multi-socket servers - unfortunately I had no space to keep the servers :( not that they'd be worth running now. I'd swear we had a quad socket one with 5000 series Xeons but it must have been LGA1366 as I can't see any quad CPU 771 boards and it was too long ago for 2011.
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sounds good, are they pre modded for 775?
also i checked, its a gigabyte EQ45M-S2 v1.0 board. would that take xeon?
 
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Will run at stock since its only a test rig.
Got a cooler too so wont be using stock intel one. Its an arctic freezer 7 so should be quiet.
If i find i need some more cpu grunt I may look into the xeon route but this e8400 should do. Waiting on the ssd to arrive then will get it all up and running.
 
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