Sorry for my vague title. Basically, I have this Shuttle machine, which has a Professional Audio Recording Sound Card for recording audio professionally, but I am thinking that this silent pc makes some noise, mainly because my processor is very power hungry and people kept telling me that Pentium D's are very inefficient and Core 2 Duos are better. I have a Q6600 on my main system and its really nice, just like my Pentium 4 3.00 GHz back in 2005. Anyways, getting back to my pentium d system, since I use this for silent performances, I want a processor to be less power hungry so that the performance and noise lowers down.
So I was looking at my e7400 processor in my other P5Q-E Machine and was thinking I could just put that in my quiet machine, but yet, the stupid chipset is an i945G chipset and doesn't support the e7400! Now, I was looking at my system specs and the E4600 Dual Core processor (which is less better than the E6600, a processor half as good as my Q6600) would fit my Shuttle, but when I looked it up on the internet, Its a Hundered Dollars! I think thats ridiclous since its a 0.35 quad core speed and most AMD dual cores are half that price. Why is Intel being so expensive?
I apologize for my rant.
So basically, my question is this. Where can I trade in my Pentium D 945 CPU with a E4600 and get a 50 percent discount or something when making the purchase? I am currently testing Windows 7 on this machine, its not bad except I know its a crap machine since the Pentium D bogs the system performance down. My main q6600 system is currently running Windows XP Professional, which is really ironic.
Thanks for taking the time to read this essay.
Edited by judenihal - 3/1/10 at 7:21pm
So I was looking at my e7400 processor in my other P5Q-E Machine and was thinking I could just put that in my quiet machine, but yet, the stupid chipset is an i945G chipset and doesn't support the e7400! Now, I was looking at my system specs and the E4600 Dual Core processor (which is less better than the E6600, a processor half as good as my Q6600) would fit my Shuttle, but when I looked it up on the internet, Its a Hundered Dollars! I think thats ridiclous since its a 0.35 quad core speed and most AMD dual cores are half that price. Why is Intel being so expensive?
I apologize for my rant.
So basically, my question is this. Where can I trade in my Pentium D 945 CPU with a E4600 and get a 50 percent discount or something when making the purchase? I am currently testing Windows 7 on this machine, its not bad except I know its a crap machine since the Pentium D bogs the system performance down. My main q6600 system is currently running Windows XP Professional, which is really ironic.
Thanks for taking the time to read this essay.
Edited by judenihal - 3/1/10 at 7:21pm
