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I've been gifted a Core 2 Duo system that is going to replace my old d'link nas.
It's an LGA 775 board and I'm looking to replace the CPU with a better one on ebay for $50 but the problem is the CPU now pulls 60w max and the pentium extreme I want to put in it will pull 130 watt and I'm not sure if the power supply will have much fun, also I want to upgrade the ram to at least 8, what's the maximum it will take? Is there any way I can check the power supply's max wattage? I can't find it written anywhere, all I know is it's a Dell prebuilt, it has 0HY368 I'm fairly certain that's the model number but Google gave no results.

Any help will be much appreciated.
 
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Not sure why you would consider a Pentium Extreme Edition to be an upgrade over Core 2. The Core 2 is easily ~2-3x as fast for the same clock in most benchmarks, and as the Netburst Pentium never reached 3x the clockspeed of the Core 2, it was always slower. The mighty 965EE is nearly as fast in some benchmarks as the slowest Core 2 ever sold at 1.8GHz though.
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And for $50 you could even buy the fastest 775 quad-core Q9650, not that such a thing would be needed for a NAS. Just about anything, even that Pentium 4, would be better than the weak ARM router CPUs used in consumer NAS appliances.
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Not sure why you would consider a Pentium Extreme Edition to be an upgrade over Core 2. The Core 2 is easily ~2-3x as fast for the same clock in most benchmarks, and as the Netburst Pentium never reached 3x the clockspeed of the Core 2, it was always slower. The mighty 965EE is nearly as fast in some benchmarks as the slowest Core 2 ever sold at 1.8GHz though.
12598.png

And for $50 you could even buy the fastest 775 quad-core Q9650, not that such a thing would be needed for a NAS. Just about anything, even that Pentium 4, would be better than the weak ARM router CPUs used in consumer NAS appliances.
 
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