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| Thread ID: 120482 | 2011-09-11 01:36:00 | PC Upgrades - do people ever upgrade their CPU ? | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 1230289 | 2011-09-11 07:14:00 | It can be worthwhile fitting a quad CPU to AM3 and some AM2 motherboards now that these CPUs have become inexpensive. I have done a couple upgrades from Duron 140s. | PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 1230290 | 2011-09-11 09:17:00 | Not really worth it in my opinion. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1230291 | 2011-09-11 10:20:00 | I think not so, simply because of the fact that in most cases, people upgrading are doing so a few years after their initial purchase, at which point the entire lot on a new socket would be cheaper and more bang for your buck than a new cpu. I could chuck a lga 1155 socket (or whatever, you know what I mean) i7 in my pc, but at the moment that would be a pointless upgrade. My current i5 does everything I need it to, beautifully. I could upgrade if there was a faster, 6 core cpu made for my socket, but then that would probably require a new board that supports it. Yeah it's kind of the one thing you buy and get stuck with. Except with amd's am2/+/3 sockets. I love amd, even though my CPU's intel, in that regard. You can win me over by telling me I can use my old stuff in my new product. That's also why I love the PS2 and hate the ps3. ps2 can do ps1 games, PS3 can't AFAIK. At least, couldn't, at some point. |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1230292 | 2011-09-11 10:25:00 | I did a CPU upgrade recently for the first time since owning PCs from 1986 to now. My PCs recently are $100 ones off the bottom of the stack from work. My latest had a Celeron 3.2GHz. I need to run virtual machines for various OSs. The first thing I needed to do was to upgrade the RAM from 1 to 2 GB. This did not greatly improve the VBox performance so I installed a Dual Core 2.7GHz CPU - this made quite an appreciable difference. | johnd (85) | ||
| 1230293 | 2011-09-11 11:35:00 | That's also why I love the PS2 and hate the ps3. ps2 can do ps1 games, PS3 can't AFAIK. At least, couldn't, at some point. I think it could, but then they got rid of it, along with all the other features that made it useful. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1230294 | 2011-09-11 19:11:00 | Thanks guys, It seems that the general concensus is that it is best to upgrade the motherboard and the cpu at the same time. It seems that by the time there is a worthwhile CPU increase the socket is out of date or you can get a new motherboard for a good price. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1230295 | 2011-09-11 20:37:00 | +1 for the conclusion | icow (15313) | ||
| 1230296 | 2011-09-11 22:31:00 | +2. | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
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