[sciman001]

Hi all. I am looking to upgrade my CPU. I am currently running a Pentium 4 at about 3.0 GHZ. I was thinking about these:

Pentium Dual Core
Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Quad
Xeon E3110

I am running on a socket 775. I have a graphics card. I dont think there really is anything else to say. So, what cpu from the above would give the best Bang For Your Buck? The games i play are Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, and Call of Duty 2. I may get COD-MW2 and GTA4. Again, which CPU should i buy? I buy from Circuit City. THANKS!

P.S. This is my "gaming" pc.

[falenone1]

Why not try that new i7 core?
It's pretty good

[Ravia_Devaia]

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Originally Posted by falenone1 Why not try that new i7 core? It's pretty good

And expensive.

[John_Cooper]

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Originally Posted by Ravia_Devaia And expensive.

So true

[Mr187]

Make sure the CPU you get works the sockets available for your motherboard.

[ettans]

If you plan on playing newer games, including GTA IV, get a quad-core.

[Drowzz]

Or get the new AMD x6,, It has 6 Cores

[WackoX]

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Originally Posted by ettans If you plan on playing newer games, including GTA IV, get a quad-core.

You can play GTA IV great at 45FPS with an Intel Celeron @ 2.6ghz, with everything on medium.
There is no need for a quad-core.

And this guy has socket 775, you'll have to check on your motherboard, but these CPU's exist for this type of socket:

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Intel Pentium 4 (2.60 - 3.80 GHz) Intel Celeron D (2.53 - 3.60 GHz ) Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (3.20 - 3.73 GHz) Intel Pentium D (2.66 - 3.60 GHz) Pentium Extreme Edition (3.20 - 3.73 GHz) Pentium Dual-Core (1.40 - 3.33 GHz) Intel Core 2 Duo (1.60 - 3.33 GHz) Intel Core 2 Extreme (2.66 - 3.20 GHz) Intel Core 2 Quad (2.33 - 3.00 GHz) Intel Xeon (1.86-3.40 GHz) Intel Celeron (1.60 - 2.40 GHz)

[iLinx]

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Originally Posted by Drowzz Or get the new AMD x6,, It has 6 Cores

He said it's a Socket 775.. AMD needs an AM* board. Intel i7 needs an LGA-1156 IIRC.

I'd go for a newer Core2Quad, or overclock a Core2Duo past 3.0GHZ (I have an OC'd C2D on my desktop and it works great, most games are single threaded anyways so there's no point in buying a 6 core processor really).

[westre]

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Originally Posted by iLinx He said it's a Socket 775.. AMD needs an AM* board. Intel i7 needs an LGA-1156 IIRC. I'd go for a newer Core2Quad, or overclock a Core2Duo past 3.0GHZ (I have an OC'd C2D on my desktop and it works great, most games are single threaded anyways so there's no point in buying a 6 core processor really).

1st gen i5, i7 860/870 = s1156
1st gen i7 920-990 = s1366
2nd gen i5/i7 = s1155

But yeah, you should go for a core 2 quad. It won't bottleneck as fast as you start upgrading your other components.