Can i swap my 1.8 celeron with a pentium d 945 3.4

[otto911]

can i swap my 1.8 celeron with a pentium d 945 3.4 my motherboard is a P5GC-MX/1333
I started playing sc2 on my old desktop comp and the cpu is bottlenecking (obviously) I have a amd radeon gpu. I cant remember what kind but i can update once i get home from work. Also would the pentium d make a huge difference im guessing it would with it having 3.4 ghz but with it being old i dont know.


thanks

 

[WR2]

Hello otto911

Pentium D 945 is supported by your motherboard.
Do you already have the 945?
There are other options that are higher performance CPUs.

Asus P5GC-MX/1333 website & CPU Support List
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5GCMX1333/

 

[otto911]

thanks for the post wr2.

this is just my old comp that i built a few years back and just decided to upgrade the cpu. I am actually going to be building a new comp hopefully by the end of this month so I am not to worried at getting that great of a cpu for it.

 

[WR2]

Intel Celeron 430 1.8Ghz @ CPU World


Passmark CPU Benchmark scores:
Intel Celeron 430 @ 1.8Ghz = 507
Pentium D 945 @ 3.4Ghz = 931
Intel Core2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz = 1988

 

[otto911]

thanks

 

[otto911]

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