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ruben1521

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I have a gx280 with g8310 motherboard (intel915g chipset) single core. Can it be replaced with a dual core? (dell intel pentiumd 3.2ghz dual core (311-6013) or a intel 3.2ghz 4mb 1066mhz fsb dual core cpu??
 
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logainofhades
To be honest, it really isn't worth throwing money away into such an old rig. Even a lowly Haswell celeron would be lightyears ahead over any P4 or Pentium D. I would probably not go below a Pentium G which is only $16 more. Just to give you an idea of what you can get.

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CPU: Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($48.37 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($49.99 @ Microcenter)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $158.35
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when...
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logainofhades

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To be honest, it really isn't worth throwing money away into such an old rig. Even a lowly Haswell celeron would be lightyears ahead over any P4 or Pentium D. I would probably not go below a Pentium G which is only $16 more. Just to give you an idea of what you can get.

Celeron
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($48.37 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($49.99 @ Microcenter)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $158.35
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-27 16:09 EST-0500)


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Pentium G with better board
CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.97 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Biostar Hi-Fi B85S3+ Ver. 6.x Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $194.95
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-27 16:08 EST-0500)

 
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Not quite, you can upgrade it to any Socket 775 CPU with an 800 MHz FSB that Dell chose to add BIOS support for, that is going to be a very very limited number. I don't think they ever support pentium Ds, i think the best you will get up to is a P4 with hyper threading in that machine, and for the price of the builds posted above i would suggest going for one of them rather than spending close to that much on a CPU that won't help the old dell much since most of the slow you are experiencing will likely be due to the hard drive being incredibly slow due to older tech.
 
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Well that is true, but as you said this is going to be a very limited. In fact, unless they used the same motherboard for multiple systems with different CPUs it will be extremely limited. However, I don't think Dell says which CPUs are supported so finding out will be hard.

Only reason I am not telling him to go for a better build, is because I think he probably would if he could first. I mean, who on earth would ever want to use a Netburst based system?
But also because those old CPUs are really cheap now. For the risk of waisting like $5-$15, though probably closer to $5, and a chance it will work. It might not, but still pretty cheap to try.

And yea the HDD is a slow down also but remember IDE went up close to SATA 1 speeds, and on much better systems then Penitum 4 so he still will likely see a considerable boost.
 
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