Picking out a New CPU,

[Just Me]

While I am fairly familiar with AMD products, I am completely blank when it comes to Intel products. I have been doing research for the past few days and I think I am suffering from information overload.

What I have is an Intel Lakeport I945 G/P motherboard and it is a BTX motherboard. I have a 2.8 Pentium D Type 1 processor.

It seems to be lagging or not doing as well in games as I would like it to do. I think the processor is a little on the small size. I was thinking possibly a 3.2 or 3.4 or even a 3.6 would possibly bring it up to an acceptable level. I don't put too much stock into the scores that are given but I was stuttering and lagging until I put another two gigs of RAM in. My Mark 6 score fell 1000 points after after i put the RAM in but my game playing became a lot smoother with no more jerking. Oh by the way, my Mark 6 score is 4317.

Intel I 945 G./P. motherboard
Intel 2.8 Pentium D. processor
4 gigs of RAM---Crucial Technology 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2
533 (PC2 4200)
ATI 100-435801 Radeon X1900XT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card I'll

If there is any other information I can give you that will help, please let me know. I would really appreciate some suggestions on which processor it would be best to get, that is compatible with this motherboard.
Thank you very much

 

[stevty2889]

Well I don't know what you mean by type 1 proccessor. Is it a pentium-d 820 or 920? You say you have 4 gigs of ram(which is a major overkill, 32 bit windows won't even fully utiilize 4 gig of ram, and no siingle program is allocated more thatn 2gb of ram) but only listed 2gigs. What power supply do you have? What are you using for cooling? The 8xx series runs especialy hot, so if not properly cooled, your CPU will throttlle, and you'll lose 33-66% of it's performance. Not sure if your motherboard supports the 9xx series or not, but the pentium-d 950 would be the best you could get if it does. Why in the heck did you get a low speed Intel dual core for gaming anyway?

 

[Just Me]

My computer just up and quit on me one Sunday morning. It was a gigabyte with dual AMD 1900 XP processors. I had a GeForce TI 4600 for a video card. Although I would never consider a prebuilt computer, this one was only one-month-old and it was a real steal. I had something going on and really needed one that day. The Rest Is History.

I wish to thank you very kindly for taking the time and trouble to help me

I Did Manage to Get What the Type 1 Is -- and That Is the BTX Platform. This Computer Is Whisper Silent. Everyone around Here Says "I Am Sleeping with the Enemy Now" (Smile). Well, I might as well tell the rest -- -- it is a Dell Computer -- -- a preparatory mess. I figured it would do me until the new generation of products have made their debut. I'm getting real old and I figure i can game for about another year.. I just got through playing a game and my frame rates was from 15 to 40 (sometimes dipping down to 5). I have always wanted to keep my frame rates around 40 to 60.The game is called Ghost Recon -- MacGraw edition -- advanced warrior.

I cant get all of this -- Smithfield -- Preston and all of those chipsets straight in my mind. Most of the games I play, the frame rates are astronomical, but this one brings this system down to its knees. I just felt that if I can get a little larger CPU, then this computer will do me for a while. I am still doing research, but I think I may have to take a couple of days break for it is all coming together on me.



* Intel Pentium D 820 Smithfield 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core EM64T Processor Model BX80551PG2800FN - Retail

64 bit Support: Yes
Hyper-Threading Support: No
L1 Cache: 24KB+32KB
L2 Cache: 2 x 1MB
Multi-Core: Dual-Core
Multimedia Instruction: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
Operating Frequency: 2.8GHz
Process Type: 90 nm
Series: Pentium D
Voltage: 1.25-1.4V
* Model #: BX80551PG2800FN