December 29, 20232 yr 12 hours ago, j7n said: Not that long ago I paid 50 for a GTX 750. I think people value their property slightly more here, and they have to pay €1-3 to post an advertisement. Since there are no XP-drivers for next-gen video adapters, they can't be used regardless how fast they might be. Looks like you had been scammed, in the original 50USD post they wrote about the 9th gen., yours is the seventh gen., even older, not to mention they write about high end models, not the budget ones. Also Euro currency is higher than USD.
January 1, 20242 yr well i looked around his (Intel Pentium E6800 @ 3.33GHz) has a benchmark of: - 1151 your old motherboard was a intel LGA/Socket 775 MB this is a relativ complete list of the 4 core cpus for LGA/Socket 775: arranged by performance test from cpubenchmark.net: for the prices i have looked ebay: Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz (45 nm) - 2456 - price ~ 33 € Intel Core2 Extreme X9650 @ 3.00GHz (45 nm) - 2394 - price ~ 75 € Intel Core2 Extreme X9750 @ 3.16GHz (?) - 2348 - price ? Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (45 nm) - 2333 - price ~ 15 € Intel Core2 Extreme X9770 @ 3.20GHz (45 nm) - 2312 - price ? Intel Core2 Extreme Q6850 @ 3.00GHz (65 nm) - 2304 - price ~ 49 € Intel Core2 Quad Q9500 @ 2.83GHz (45 nm) - 2215 - price ~ 15 € Intel Core2 Quad Q9450 @ 2.66GHz (45 nm) - 2178 - price ~ 24 € Intel Core2 Extreme Q6800 @ 2.93GHz (65 nm) - 2145 - price ~ 85 € Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHz (45 nm) - 2111 - price ~ 22 € Intel Core2 Quad Q6700 @ 2.66GHz (65 nm) - 2097 - price ~ 6 € Intel Core2 Quad Q9505 @ 2.83GHz (45 nm) - 2084 - price ~ 21 € Intel Core2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.66GHz (45 nm) - 2076 - price ~ 6 € Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (45 nm) - 1965 - price ~ 6 € Intel Core2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.50GHz (45 nm) - 1885 - price ~ 4 € Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (65 nm) - 1811 - price ~ 8 € Intel Core2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33GHz (45 nm) - 1774 - price ~ 3 € Intel Pentium E6800 @ 3.33GHz (his) (45 nm) - 1151 - price ~ 12 € unknown charts, but they should be similiar to the the chart list above Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Core 2 Quad Q9700 Core 2 Quad Q6400 Core 2 Quad Q8200s Core 2 Quad Q9450S Core 2 Quad Q9505s Core 2 Quad Q9550s the gap between these cpu´s is not that big and they are cheap to get and have higher benchmarks then yours even in cheap range of 3-33 € ----------------------------------------------- for a grafic card he should go to: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ and look for a cpu you want to have for the right money then you should take a look if for that card is a working windows xp or not this is done here: https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx --- coolers i already gave a nice list before - "socket 775" --- ram for those Core 2 Quad CPU´s useally are 1333 mhz (the most ram can underclock to this speed) if he keeps that old cpu (Intel Pentium E6800 @ 3.33GHz) he can upgrade his ram speed (he runs underclocked) the right terms is : DDR2-1066 PC2-8500, DDR2 1066, PC2-8500 for ddr3 right term is : DDR3 PC 1066 the most DDR3 rams can be underclocked to 1333 MHZ (PC 1333) im 1066 can make problems in this case he can buy any DDR3 ram speed what is above 1333 mhz
January 1, 20242 yr Just make sure you don't pair up 1333FSB CPU with old chipset like 965. 1333FSB only works with Intel Q31 and up. https://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/whitepaper/316971.pdf
January 2, 20242 yr I advise to look for more rare LGA775 1600FSB boards to be able to get overclocking to a level that makes sense. Asrock based on g31, for example, if one prefers a budget one.
January 3, 20242 yr the forgotten chipset cooler question ? it either go for "chipset cooler" "southbridge cooler" "northbridge cooler" HB-802 Northbriddge Noctua NC-U6 Swiftech BC-MCX159CU Enzotech SLF-40mm https://www.amazon.in/Heatpipes-Radiator-Motherboard-Northbridge-Southbridge/dp/B08NBCFJPT https://de.aliexpress.com/item/4001133383805.html it seems quite hard to find these today, ebay gave very bad search results i think the chipset cooler got quite forgotten, Saxon made a good point if the chipset is getting to hot just get a chipset cooler as Saxon mentioned there are chipsets that can handle more then 1333 mhz/FSB like 1600 or even higher , a 1600 mhz/FSB chipset clocked to 1333 is running underclocked - what actually means it should keep cool
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