Everything, the cpu even if overclocked will not do well in new games. You gonna need to upgrade to service pack 3 and with the way this is going propably to vista or win7 and 512 mb ram? You gonna need 4 times that, plus you videocard is hardly suported and its intergrated. Long story short you need to change everything. Just buy a new one.
Everything, the cpu even if overclocked will not do well in new games. You gonna need to upgrade to service pack 3 and with the way this is going propably to vista or win7 and 512 mb ram? You gonna need 4 times that, plus you videocard is hardly suported and its intergrated. Long story short you need to change everything. Just buy a new one.dakan45
Lol wut? The E2160 with a decent overclock can run Crysis without a hitch. Even though it's a cheap celeron, it still holds it's own clock-for-clock compared to higher-end LGA775 chips.
[QUOTE="dakan45"]Everything, the cpu even if overclocked will not do well in new games. You gonna need to upgrade to service pack 3 and with the way this is going propably to vista or win7 and 512 mb ram? You gonna need 4 times that, plus you videocard is hardly suported and its intergrated. Long story short you need to change everything. Just buy a new one.MaoTheChimp
Lol wut? The E2160 with a decent overclock can run Crysis without a hitch. Even though it's a cheap celeron, it still holds it's own clock-for-clock compared to higher-end LGA775 chips.
It's an allendale (an C2D with less cache) not a celeron. ;)
quad cores are more noisy, so dont upgrade just hold on to your current one till you have a problem.dakan45
This was hijacked from the 6400+ thread. (while trying to find out if someone would need an upgrade.)
@dakan45, what are you speaking of?
Your are just as welcome to fill these pages as anyone else, but totally incorrect awnswers isn't helping anyone.
Lol wut? The E2160 with a decent overclock can run Crysis without a hitch. Even though it's a cheap celeron, it still holds it's own clock-for-clock compared to higher-end LGA775 chips.
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It's an allendale (an C2D with less cache) not a celeron. ;)
quad cores are more noisy, so dont upgrade just hold on to your current one till you have a problem.dakan45
This was hijacked from the 6400+ thread. (while trying to find out if someone would need an upgrade.)
@dakan45, what are you speaking of?
Your are just as welcome to fill these pages as anyone else, but totally incorrect awnswers isn't helping anyone.
Sure with overclocking the cpu can play crysis, not max it however and we all know that there are more demanding games than crysis nowadays. Therefore it will be a bad idea if you want to play the future games. Also how exactly will he run crysis well with 512mb ram and nvidia 7300? The most helpfull thing and less troublesome will be to buy a new pc. Easiest way out. Also ofcourse quad cpus will generate more heat than dual cores and therefore will be more noisy.Unless that does not apply on intel cpus!!!
With what you have, upgrading is going to be no more cost efficient than a complete rebuild. You can poach as many non performance based components as possible. Namely interface devices, displays, cases, optical drives, etc etc etc.
[QUOTE="dakan45"] Sure with overclocking the cpu can play crysis, not max it however and we all know that there are more demanding games than crysis nowadays. Therefore it will be a bad idea if you want to play the future games. Also how exactly will he run crysis well with 512mb ram and nvidia 7300? The most helpfull thing and less troublesome will be to buy a new pc. Easiest way out. Also ofcourse quad cpus will generate more heat than dual cores and therefore will be more noisy.Unless that does not apply on intel cpus!!! The TDP of an 65nm allendale C2D isn't better than the one of a 45nm york. C2Q But your subjekt wasnt about that, your talking about the 6400 BE, are you fammiliar to TDP?, the more refined an arcitecture gets the less it leaks, this will add up to less wattage use and less heat are produced, with current design you'll have a more energy efficient CPU than before either if you take AMD or Intel as a refference. So, being a quadcore will not determin the thermal efficient in the way you belive it do. thus your statement about that a Quad are more noisy than a dual is very very wrong. And to add the incorrect analys you did, most quads have better cooling solutions, for ex, tho most C2D had an aliminium heatsink the quads had a aliminium heatsink with copperbase. And also, whats your definition of maxing crysis? If you mean steady 25FPS while all graphics are at full im quite confident that a OC'ed E2xxxx allendale can do it easy!
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