best budget LGA 775 cpu

[waaedalqraan]

i have been looking on ebay and found alot of good quad core cpu's under 50 usd but i am not sure which is the best price to performance (i will use it on a asrock g41c vs motherboard that i have just until i can save for an all new pc and i have 600w psu and and 8gb 4*2 ddr3 1333hz or maybe 1600hz or more and a r9 280x gpu that i know it will bottelneck but i will try)

 

[PurpleZ]

id get q8400 and for ram that motherboard culd be 2xdd3 + 2xddr2 so watch what u buy for ram and also watch whare u install witch ram edit; also i dont think ddr3 will go over 1333 speed

 

[Karadjgne]

You use either ddr3 or ddr2, not both together. It's a dual slot mobo that happens to have access to both styles of ram.
And I second the q8400, it OC's quite nicely, which you'll need to keep up with any more modern games with that gpu.

 

[waaedalqraan]

You use either ddr3 or ddr2, not both together. It's a dual slot mobo that happens to have access to both styles of ram.
And I second the q8400, it OC's quite nicely, which you'll need to keep up with any more modern games with that gpu.

1. L2 cache is 4mb only and no L3
2.can i run both ddr2 and ddr3

 

[PurpleZ]

You use either ddr3 or ddr2, not both together. It's a dual slot mobo that happens to have access to both styles of ram.
And I second the q8400, it OC's quite nicely, which you'll need to keep up with any more modern games with that gpu.

1. L2 cache is 4mb only and no L3
2.can i run both ddr2 and ddr3

q8400 is rly good price to preformance, u can use either 4gb of ddr3 1333 or u can use 4gb of ddr2 800 if ur not planing to keep it for long u culd get away with core e8400 core 2 duo and 4gb of ddr2 the cache is low becouse those are 10 year old chips

 

[waaedalqraan]

You use either ddr3 or ddr2, not both together. It's a dual slot mobo that happens to have access to both styles of ram.
And I second the q8400, it OC's quite nicely, which you'll need to keep up with any more modern games with that gpu.

1. L2 cache is 4mb only and no L3
2.can i run both ddr2 and ddr3

q8400 is rly good price to preformance, u can use either 4gb of ddr3 1333 or u can use 4gb of ddr2 800 if ur not planing to keep it for long u culd get away with core e8400 core 2 duo and 4gb of ddr2 the cache is low becouse those are 10 year old chips

ill use 8gb ddr3 that i found for 15 usd and i found some good cpu's with good price which one should i go with
1.q9550 for 30 usd
2.q8400 for 15 usd
3.q6600 for free
(i really need an advice

 

[Karadjgne]

Not sure how well you'll be able to pull off using that 8Gb. Many of those boards had limits on accepted ram, as in you could use 2x4Gb sticks, but only if it was single sided ic, if it was dual sides you were stuck with 2x2Gb. Many of those 775 boards had a single stick 4Gb or 2x2Gb cap anyways, since at the time and for any realistic foreseeable future, windows was stuck, so not sure how well a x64(64bit) OS will operate on that old board, which might restrict you to a x86(32bit) OS. Which would mean a 4Gb cap on ram usage anyways.

 

[Karadjgne]

Yeah. Look up the board on ASR site, make sure that ram has 16x ic's per stick or it won't work right, if at all.

 

[waaedalqraan]

Yeah. Look up the board on ASR site, make sure that ram has 16x ic's per stick or it won't work right, if at all.

am sure it can run 8gb cuse the site say so but i am in need for the cpu advice

 

[Karadjgne]

Look down. There's a double tap star says that in order to get maximum memory, you must use 4Gb sticks with 16 ic's and 2Gb sticks with 8 ic's.

And after further research you'd be better off with the q9550. The 12Mb of L2 will serve you better than the q8400's 4Mb.

 

[BFG-9000]

G41 chipset has a hard FSB limit around 340 so you'll want as high a multiplier as you can get because it can't do much overclocking. As G41C-GS is on the Xeon compatibility list the best CPU by far would be the quadcore S771 Xeon x5470 3.33GHz, but examples modded to fit into S775 motherboards are $51.14 to $51.19 on eBay right now so it's expensive.

So the best budget chip for that board would be the premodded quadcore Xeon x5460 3.17GHz at $19.99 shipped from multiple sellers. Same 12MB cache as Q9650 but faster.

And DDR2 would be better unless as Karadjgne said, you want the hassle of tracking down some extremely low-density vintage DDR3 that hasn't been made since 2010.

 

[waaedalqraan]

G41 chipset has a hard FSB limit around 340 so you'll want as high a multiplier as you can get because it can't do much overclocking. As G41C-GS is on the Xeon compatibility list the best CPU by far would be the quadcore S771 Xeon x5470 3.33GHz, but examples modded to fit into S775 motherboards are $51.14 to $51.19 on eBay right now so it's expensive.

So the best budget chip for that board would be the premodded quadcore Xeon x5460 3.17GHz at $19.99 shipped from multiple sellers. Same 12MB cache as Q9650 but faster.

And DDR2 would be better unless as Karadjgne said, you want the hassle of tracking down some extremely low-density vintage DDR3 that hasn't been made since 2010.

i am just worry about the cooler ill need for the xeon

 

[BFG-9000]

If you can't overclock, the stock S775 cooler will be fine. Despite the various TDP ratings, 45nm Yorkfield/Harpertown quads only draw 72w under full load at 3.0GHz. That's around the same as a 65nm dual-core at the same speed like the x6800.

You just need to remember to put the CPU in 90 degrees turned from the usual way because there are two sets of indexing notches on a modded S771 CPU.

 

[Karadjgne]

Cooler is easy. Raijintek Aidos. It's a 92mm fan cooler that will fit on lga775 without issue and has equitable (if not slightly better) performance to a CM hyper212 EVO. And it's cheap. Basically there isn't an lga775/771 cpu it can't handle easily, even with some OC. On that ICH 7 mobo, you'll not get ground shattering OC anyways, so you'll be fine there. Advantages of a decent aftermarket cooler are twofold. Temps and noise. You'll find that those older stock coolers are nothing more than miniature freight trains in your pc, as this really was from a time when nobody gave much thought to cooling solutions. Which is why most all of the pc's of that generation had but 1 exhaust fan in the back and all kinds of useless plastic junk in the front.