Question What CPU should I upgrade to?

[LuKaWin10]

What CPU should I upgrade to? CPU I have right now is E6750 with E6600 STOCK COOLER. My mobo is P35-DS3 rev 2.1 Gigabyte. Give me suggestions for a great cooler for the CPU too, budget reliable 50-60 euros. CPU I could try buying on AliExpress. Thanks!

 

[Lutfij]

In your current state, make sure you've flashed to the latest BIOS version. Following that you could look into the Q6600 but these are the processors you can drop onto the socket;
https://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Gigabyte/GA-P35-DS3(rev._2.1).html

 

[artk2219]

What CPU should I upgrade to? CPU I have right now is E6750 with E6600 STOCK COOLER. My mobo is P35-DS3 rev 2.1 Gigabyte. Give me suggestions for a great cooler for the CPU too, budget reliable 50-60 euros. CPU I could try buying on AliExpress. Thanks!

Is this for daily use, or as a retro gaming pc? Where are you located in the EU?

 

[faalin]

a QX9770 is the best CPU you can put in there according to your motherboard support page LINK you will need to make sure you are on BIOS F14 or newer for it.

As for cooler it a little harder, the LGA 775 mounting holes are 72mm square while the 1155 socket is 75mm square. Looking at your board there is nothing around the mounting holes so you could gently file the holes bigger to fit the socket 115x hardware for better coolers.

Depending on your case you might be able to fit a Dark Freezer x94 cooler

 

[js2]

What CPU should I upgrade to? CPU I have right now is E6750 with E6600 STOCK COOLER. My mobo is P35-DS3 rev 2.1 Gigabyte. Give me suggestions for a great cooler for the CPU too, budget reliable 50-60 euros. CPU I could try buying on AliExpress. Thanks!

An E8500. The existing cooler should do fine.

 

[LuKaWin10]

Is this for daily use, or as a retro gaming pc? Where are you located in the EU?

Croatia, used for daily use/mini retro gaming!

 

[artk2219]

Croatia, used for daily use/mini retro gaming!

Got it, i asked if it was for daily use because for 50 or 60 euros you can sometimes find some decent used office PC's with a Haswell or Skylake based CPU's , im not sure if its the same in the area you are in though. But a haswell based core i5 with 8gb of ram would be quite a nice upgrade from the core 2 duo you are currently using. Otherwise, a core 2 quad Q9650 is like 20 euros.

 

[faalin]

You want something with a Q in the front of it for a quad core. Anything with an E in the front is a dual core and your only spending money to get a faster clock speed.

 

[LuKaWin10]

Got it, i asked if it was for daily use because for 50 or 60 euros you can sometimes find some decent used office PC's with a Haswell or Skylake based CPU's , im not sure if its the same in the area you are in though. But a haswell based core i5 with 8gb of ram would be quite a nice upgrade from the core 2 duo you are currently using. Otherwise, a core 2 quad Q9650 is like 20 euros.

Yes. On AliExpress it is something like that when prices change (depends lucky days) but I need a cooler for it!

 

[LuKaWin10]

You want something with a Q in the front of it for a quad core. Anything with an E in the front is a dual core and your only spending money to get a faster clock speed.

Thanks. I am planning on some Quad core, but I don't know. Just one that I can run Windows 8.1 on very well (this one know runs okay but i want a little bit better)

 

[artk2219]

Yes. On AliExpress it is something like that when prices change (depends lucky days) but I need a cooler for it!

Got it, this cpu is currently around 20 euros, as for cooling it, its honestly not a very hot chip, so a tower cooler with 2 heat pipes should work fine. Or a relatively decent horizontal cooler.

Q9650

Cooler

 

[LuKaWin10]

Got it, this cpu is currently around 20 euros, as for cooling it, its honestly not a very hot chip, so a tower cooler with 2 heat pipes should work fine. Or a relatively decent horizontal cooler.

Q9650

Cooler

Could I maybe go for the Q9450 since it is just kind of the same, and my PSU is 350 W but if its less than 350 W or close to 300 W it will still be alright correct me if i am wrong?