CPU upgrade

[Andrew Bridle]

Hi looking for a bit of advice ?
I have a Asus P5N32_E sli mother board, socket lga775,with a intel P8500 core 2 duo CPU @3.15 ghz.
What would be my best CPU upgrade choice i dont want to change the mother board !

 

[stefano.schivari]

i guess that you have the best option for that socket.
you can go to buy a quadcore maybe but imho the best option is buy an i5 cpu and a new motherboard

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Having the same prob myself.... after months of planning i will prob end up with i5 2500k and a beter motherboard..
im settling for a single big screen upgrade. (multi purpose uses)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Per...6?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item1e6a3342bc .... already have gtx460 and can use the rest from old pc...This should last atleat a couple of years..... now to find a big plasma tv... 600htz...

If ive understood Jim correctly the i5 2500k will do every thing i need and more...

 

[Andrew Bridle]

What quad core ???? am i gonna get enough bang for my bucks ????

 

[Ramónizer]

Hi looking for a bit of advice ?
I have a Asus P5N32_E sli mother board, socket lga775,with a intel P8500 core 2 duo CPU @3.15 ghz.
What would be my best CPU upgrade choice i dont want to change the mother board !

Propably a used q9550 oc'ed to 4ghz price/performance wise.

What CPU cooler do you have? You could uprgrade to a Thermalright HR 02 Macho if it fits into your PC case and overclock your CPU to whats possible, if it's not enough you could switch to a q9550 ( used ) or build a new rig and keep using the cooler for it.

It may make more sense to upgrade your Graphics first if you don't run iracing wich is CPU heavy, depending on what you're using actually. Rf2 is not optimized yet, they said that they won't fully make use of quadcores a while ago. All performance problems actually are due to beeing a Beta.

 

[Josh Garcia]

http://www.newegg.com/Store/ComboDeals.aspx?ComboStoreID=1&name=CPUs-Motherboards

LOTS of good cpu/mobo combos, but ramonizer is right if you are looking to go cheaper.
Im running a core 2 quad q6600 OCed to 3.2 on air, slight voltage increase on a 680i sli mobo.

I plan on new build myself.

We dont have much of a choice with this socket.

 

[Chris Butcher]

Having the same prob myself.... after months of planning i will prob end up with i5 2500k and a beter motherboard..
im settling for a single big screen upgrade. (multi purpose uses)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Per...6?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item1e6a3342bc .... already have gtx460 and can use the rest from old pc...This should last atleat a couple of years..... now to find a big plasma tv... 600htz...

If ive understood Jim correctly the i5 2500k will do every thing i need and more...

i5-2500k is a top notch CPU and you will struggle to find an i7 that beats it unless you are prepared to part with a considerable amount of cash

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Still a little confused about cooling of my cpu ......http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Corsa...ponents_Fans_Heatsinks_SR&hash=item4ab2cc4a2e... this is what im looking at ..... any thing else i should look at.. that around my budget...

 

[Chris Butcher]

I (personally) don't believe water cooling is as necessary as most people will have you believe.

 

[Josh Garcia]

Belive it or not, i changed from liquid cooling to a thermaltake air cooled heatsink, got better temps.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/store/Product.aspx?C=1015&SC=1027&SC2=1082&ID=1537

Thats pretty big, going to have to have a big case, BUT im sure it will cool better than the liquid setup and is cheaper.

 

[Brian Clancy]

I (personally) don't believe water cooling is as necessary as most people will have you believe.

I run a heavily O/Clocked quad core and it runs ice cold on an air cooler, I use the Meglahalems and its amazing! I use two 120mm fans mounted on it, my old Q8200 (2.33Ghz) quad now runs very well at 3.5Ghz + With temps a low 50 even under 4hrs of Prime95 stress testing! You dont need watercoolers

 

[Chris Butcher]

I run a heavily O/Clocked quad core and it runs ice cold on an air cooler, I use the Meglahalems and its amazing! I use two 120mm fans mounted on it, my old Q8200 (2.33Ghz) quad now runs very well at 3.5Ghz + With temps a low 50 even under 4hrs of Prime95 stress testing! You dont need watercoolers

I've got an i5-2500K (3.30Ghz) overclocked to 4.3Ghz and it runs sweet as on air cooling - never had it above 60 C with a Corsair A50 cooler, I'm happy with that

 

[Eric. K]

I am running a i7 2600k with an ASUS motherboard (cant even remember which one). It idles at 1.6Ghz, but under stress it gets and stays at 5Ghz all that on air.

 

[Eric. K]

Water cooling was "cool" in the days. Today given the performance of modern CPUs it is not as important. I only wish smaller software companies educated themselves better on how to write good software.

 

[Chris Butcher]

It's annoying that we have so much good hardware out there and its held back by sloppy programming.

 

[Eric. K]

It's annoying that we have so much good hardware out there and its held back by sloppy programming.

See in the past both AMD and Intel would just increase frequencies and you were guaranteed that your software runs faster. Today frequencies are just a small part of the equation. New features are constantly added to the processor, however compilers have to keep up with it AND software engineers need to know how to use it better as well... That's why there is such a huge discrepancy in pay between "Programmers" and "Software Engineers"

 

[Brian Clancy]

See in the past both AMD and Intel would just increase frequencies and you were guaranteed that your software runs faster. Today frequencies are just a small part of the equation. New features are constantly added to the processor, however compilers have to keep up with it AND software engineers need to know how to use it better as well... That's why there is such a huge discrepancy in pay between "Programmers" and "Software Engineers"

All this is just another good reason for me to stick to PCB's n Soldering

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Thanks for the info guys..... its spending time.....


Ive just spent my money ....... in a couple of weeks it should be up and running