Core2 Duo E6850 or Core2 Quad Q8400

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I have a a few very old computers laying around and thought i would salvage the cpu's and rebuild something for my son (before his mother throws them away on me) but Im not sure which of the 2 cpu's that caught my attention I should use or with which motherboard(or even if its worth my time)
This is what I have to mess with:

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6850
(4M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB)
or
Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q8400
(4M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB)

Available Mother boards:
Gigabyte EG45m-UD2H or a Dell Optiplex 755 Motherboard DR845

RAM:
2x 2gb DDR2 sticks
2x 4gb DDR2 sticks

HDD:
2x 1tb HDD
1x 1.5tb HDD

Blu-Ray RW Drive
DVD/CD RW Drive
Multicard Reader

Is there any combination of any of the above items I can use to build him something that he can learn on and help encourage his interest in computers? Willing to buy small upgrades but I was hoping to just use what I had and ask him to help me build it and show him recycling older things isn't as bad as his mother would have him believe lol Thanks in advance



 
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Mightyena
I would recommend the Q8400 (just for the fact that its a newer 45nm quad core, and if overclocked a little will easily match or beat the E6850 in both single and multithreaded performance) and Gigabyte board (the OEM boards such as Dell tend to be very locked down, and use proprietary CPU coolers and form factors) - that will let you overclock the CPU a little. As for the rest of the components, try them and see which ones work best. 8GB of RAM is definitely better than 4GB, but I know my Gigabyte P45 board doesn't like RAM modules bigger than 2GB, so I would try the 4GB modules, but be prepared for them not to work.

Hope that helps a little, any questions let me know!
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I would recommend the Q8400 (just for the fact that its a newer 45nm quad core, and if overclocked a little will easily match or beat the E6850 in both single and multithreaded performance) and Gigabyte board (the OEM boards such as Dell tend to be very locked down, and use proprietary CPU coolers and form factors) - that will let you overclock the CPU a little. As for the rest of the components, try them and see which ones work best. 8GB of RAM is definitely better than 4GB, but I know my Gigabyte P45 board doesn't like RAM modules bigger than 2GB, so I would try the 4GB modules, but be prepared for them not to work.

Hope that helps a little, any questions let me know!
 
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The Q8400 with the Gigabyte EG45m-UD2H and 2x 4gb DDR2
,but you will want to put in a GPU because with the integrated windows (and really ancient games) is pretty much it.
Oh yeah and if you can find a decent cooling system you can overclock this thing and get a pretty decent system for up to medium level gaming.
 
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Thanks for your replies,
I think I'm going to go with the Q8400 and the Gigabyte motherboard, I'll have a play around with it tonight and see if we can get something worked out. Also I'm not to familiar with overclocking but am very interested in learning, could you recommend a good place to start learning? Maybe I can use this build to learn on and if something goes wrong nothing will be missed too much.
 
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For overclocking, check out the overclocking guide.

If your Gigabyte board is anything like mine are, all the relevant settings will be in the BIOS under "Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T)", from there you can adjust frequency and voltages relatively easily. I've heard that sometimes you need to press Ctrl+F1 before the advanced options show up.

Hope that helps.
 
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