A quicker CPU

poppellerant

Habbakuk wrote: »

Motherboard Chipset: SiS 661MX/FX/GX + 964

Motherboard Slots: 4xPCI, 1xAGP v3.5

Above Motherboard Chipset, it should give you the Motherboard Model too. What is that?

Habbakuk

The box next to the Motherboard model is empety.:-(

cookie365

If you're trying to mine bitcoins, don't bother. The cost of the electricity you'll burn up will massively exceed the value of anything you mine.

Habbakuk

They were Maxcoin. But regardless of the mining, I do need to upgrade.

WTFH

Ok, back to the earlier questions...
How much ram do you have?
How much free disk space?
What operating system are you running?

Habbakuk

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I won't say the advice is necessarily bad but given the age of the processor and the fact it was low end even on release I'd say there is a good chance that the machine doesn't have a SATA interface and it is 100% certain that even at that quite low price the disk would be worth more than the machine although as you say it could be transferred.

£50 would buy a secondhand machine on eBay several generations newer. Looking at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php a 2.4GHz celleron has a Passmark of 226 and the first £50 delivered machine on eBay I found sports an Intel Core 2 E7400 which has a passmark of 1756. That one has no opsys but I'm pretty sure it should be possible to find one that does which will vastly exceed any upgraded version of this, probably nearly 10 year old, doorstop. Come to that you could probably get a better one through freegle.

Is this the one or the same as mentioned above?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Optiplex-760-Intel-Core-2-E7400-28GHz-1GB-RAM-DVDRW-USFF-PC-Vista-COA-/380843884523

atrixblue.-MFR-.

The e7400 processor is very overclockable processor, I got mine upto 4.2ghz stable on a thermaltake duo orb heatsink.


trouble with this system though is that DDR2 is expensive ram.


the mobo is worthless and not very upgradable to add to.


this board wont have ssd compatibility. a 754 socket processor is hard to get a decent mobo for believe me I tried, I had a asus p5q pro turbo board that I wanted to replace. second hand items was all I could find for it and I wasn't going backwards in board specs because is would lose some functionality I needed.


keep haunting FB buy sell sites and gumtree, youll find something that's worth buying you build onto that's more modern.

Habbakuk

Thank you. Your suggestion to

keep haunting FB buy sell sites and gumtree, youll find something that's worth buying you build onto that's more modern.

would be a good one if I were an IT tech. But the helpful information you provided above and needed to make an informed decision when purchasing is simply beyond the average member of the public such as myself. But thank you in any case regarding this particular machine.

Cycrow

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

I don't even think upgrading to SSD (if that's even possible on the board of this type socket) will be possible.

it will always be possible to upgrade to an SSD, even without SATA you can just add a SATA controller. (which is what i did when i first upgraded to a SATA hard drive)

however, for such an old system, its probably not the best upgrade, and not really worth it.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Cycrow wrote: »

it will always be possible to upgrade to an SSD, even without SATA you can just add a SATA controller. (which is what i did when i first upgraded to a SATA hard drive)

however, for such an old system, its probably not the best upgrade, and not really worth it.

The system my wife had had no sata connection I plugged my SSD in via a controller installed all the drivers and the system simply would recognize the fact it has a SSD in it it simply wouldn't boot up once the ssd was plugged in unplug it the system booted, tried allsorts of things that I research thnat came up and finanlly got my new build companants and completed the build and it works fantastic.