Which CPU?

[Slenkar]

Hi I have an old PC with an intel chipset 845G

I have a celeron processor 2.5ghz. I need a faster single core CPU for compiling programs.

Which CPU do you recommend?

 

[boulard83]

Seems like your 845G is a Pentium 4-Celeron-CeleronD socket.

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/845g/index.htm

this Pentium 4 3.0 fits in ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116027

anyone can tell me if im right .. im not sure !

i cant find any 845G on Newegg and tigerdirect ....

 

[Kari]

If that old P4 is $80 I'd rather get whole new combo, with some cheap P35/45 mobo and E5200 or something, even with single threaded apps it would be so much faster than that P4 (uses less electricity too)... and DDR2 is dirt cheap nowadays

 

[Kari]

or G33/43 (or what its called) if you're happy with integrated graphics...

 

[boulard83]

+1 Kari depend how much he can spend.

E5200 2.5GHz 2MB L2 Cache 83$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072

E7300 2.66GHz 3MB L2 Cache 120$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115132

90$ P45 mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157135

173$ or 210$ combo !

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40$ mobo, with onboard graphique .. quite cheap .. can fit in a 775 socket
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813185107

this 40$ with a E5200 your good to go for 120+tx $ !

 

[Nik_I]

there's no point upgrading the cpu in that board. a P4 is going to cost a fortune and yield very little improvement. just get a cheap-ish intel motherboard and get a pentium dual core.

 

[chookman]

Any of the suggestions above are a far better option than buying an out of date EOL used CPU.

 

[Slenkar]

thanks looks like im going for the new mobo