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October 17, 2014 6:35:43 AM

Ok so I have a Gigabyte Intel board at the mo (Can't remember the model) with a E8200 DC processor O'Clocked to 3ghz via the BIOS. Standard multiplier changes al other settings left on auto. Standard cooler temp never goes about 45c even after gaming for 2 or 3 hours.

That has been fine however I am running out of RAM fairly regularly now - Often getting RAM errors in games like TitanFall and Crysis 2, my board only has 2 slots for DDR2 and only support 2GB max per slot, I currently have 2x2GB corsair ram in there but I also have 2 more 2GB sticks of Corsair just going spare (the original kit was a 8GB kit).

I also have another computer donated to me from a friend that has a GA-MA69VM-S2 board with a AMD Athlon 64 x 2 4800+ running at 2.5ghz, However crucially this has 4 DIMM slots so I could get the full 8GB into it.

I am thinking of swapping to the AMD board/processor and juicing it up via BIOS to around 3ghz with stock cooler, my game of preference TitanFall is struggling at the mo with 4GB of RAM. I will also move my PSU over as well.

Will that board and processor support a 500mhz increase on standard cooler ?

Both boards support my GTX650 1GB Card.

Is it worth me switching to the AMD setup, I have Acronis with Universal Restore and a NAS box so I can move over fairly easily without too much messing about - Just some added drivers to install during the restore process.

I know it seems like a long winded move just to use my full 8GB but I hate waste and I am not prepared to shell out for new parts just yet.

Advice please.

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October 17, 2014 6:42:44 AM

no its not worth the swap because you will be losing performance with a slower less efficient cpu .. yes the more ram will be good but the cost of a slower cpu is not worth it at all .. stay with the core 2 duo and you will have a much better gaming performance trust me .. you can probably get another motherboard that supports more ram in the future
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October 17, 2014 6:44:44 AM

CPU wise the E8200 is stronger and the 4800+ will not go there on the std cooler.
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October 17, 2014 6:49:05 AM

Ok I will stick with the Intel setup - I have looked at getting another board but finding one these days that has 4 slots that support DDR2 and my type of processor is fairly tricky. Cheers
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October 17, 2014 6:52:00 AM

Daniel Hunt said:
Ok I will stick with the Intel setup - I have looked at getting another board but finding one these days that has 4 slots that support DDR2 and my type of processor is fairly tricky. Cheers


ok no problem
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October 17, 2014 6:53:55 AM

In terms of raw performance, the Core2 is 30-50% faster than the X2. Having 8GB on the X2 might solve your low memory issues at the expense of lower overall performance.

The best choice IMO would be to start over, perhaps with a Pentium G3258.
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17 minutes ago

Your best bet would be to find out and let us know the model number of the current Gigabyte Intel motherboard. I find it hard to believe that a motherboard that can support that series of Intel Core2Duo processor would only support 4GB of RAM. Also make sure you're running a 64-bit operating system. Without that, it's not going to matter what motherboard you choose.

-Wolf sends
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13 minutes ago

Turns out its a 5000+ Processor not a 4800+ even if both are running at 3ghz will it really not be worth getting the extra 4GB of ram ? I just want to play Titan fall for more than an hour without it bombing out with RAM errors.
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12 minutes ago

Just for ref I am running Win 7 64bit so max ram is not an issue.
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11 minutes ago

Daniel Hunt said:
Turns out its a 5000+ Processor not a 4800+ even if both are running at 3ghz will it really not be worth getting the extra 4GB of ram ? I just want to play Titan fall for more than an hour without it bombing out with RAM errors.


its still not worth it it .. you would be better with a whole system upgrade even a low level pentium g cpu would kill both those cpu now so it would be best to do a upgrade but if you cant then stick with the c2duo much better and a true dual core
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less than a minute ago

Still need to know the model number of the Gigabyte motherboard. It's usually printed on the board near the (first) PCI-Ex16 slot.

-Wolf sends
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