Time to get rid of LGA775? (Donation material?)

[gmaster456]

You won't get much for them but they do have plenty of use left. The only thing I don't see them being very good at is tasks most people won't be doing such as high end video rendering or heavy gaming.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Donate them to a senior center if you don't want them.

That's not a bad idea. There is one in town, a rather nice one. I know the director too.

The senior center itself already has PCs and internet for the seniors to use and learn on in the library room.

But I could talk to the director about giving them away to private parties, either based on need, or maybe they could have a drawing or something.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

That's not a bad idea. There is one in town, a rather nice one. I know the director too.

The senior center itself already has PCs and internet for the seniors to use and learn on in the library room.

But I could talk to the director about giving them away to private parties, either based on need, or maybe they could have a drawing or something.

I found two useful ideas here. Build stable PCs out of the parts and sell them for $100 each. Or donate machines -- rebuilt or not -- to some charitable organization. Stay away from the mega-churches: the charity they get makes your charity look like fly s***.

But seriously, sure. The problem is in the matching of parts without spending more money. Otherwise, if some minor changes, removal of all but minimal storage, re-installing the OS knitted to the hardware is all that's required, that could be an easy win.

There's also a whole range of enthusiasts. I know an old guy who restores C2D-era laptops. You'd be surprised what you can get out of the old technology just for some particular, limited usage. So sometimes, I just hand down a CPU, board and memory-kit to someone who wants to play with it. I'll even pay shipping charges just to get rid of the clutter and give someone else something to tinker with.

 

[Borealis7]

a once proud E8400 OCed to 3.6GHz now sits in my living room and plays movies.

 

[sm625]

E86xx is still viable for general purpose computing. They have just enough raw GHz to plow through all the javascript on today's websites. And with a budget video card, they can push games like sims and lol at playable speeds. But the quadcores are certainly on their way out. The added cores dont really help since you dont want to be doing too much on these machines anyway. I have migrated away from socket 775 quads speciafically due to the clockspeed losses that are generally associated with having 4 cores.

 

[VirtualLarry]

E86xx is still viable for general purpose computing. They have just enough raw GHz to plow through all the javascript on today's websites. And with a budget video card, they can push games like sims and lol at playable speeds. But the quadcores are certainly on their way out. The added cores dont really help since you dont want to be doing too much on these machines anyway. I have migrated away from socket 775 quads speciafically due to the clockspeed losses that are generally associated with having 4 cores.

LOL, I thought that the general wisdom was that 775 dual-core were obsolete ("for gaming"), and that quads were where it's at.

Now you are saying the opposite? I don't think ebay prices agree with your theory, just FYI.

Edit: You know that you can OC 775 quads too, right?

 

[fire400]

you won't believe it...

pulled out a dell optiplex gx520 from the dust

originally: p4/1GB/hdd/bad psu

intel pentium d 915
upgraded to 3GB
intel 530 SSD replacement
replacement psu

win7 sp1 x64 w/full aero theme
office 2010

utilizes integrated graphics...

runs 1080p video flawlessly, surfs any webpage and is completely stable/super responsive.
OS environment matches my i5-3rd-gen laptop w/plextor-m5m w/basic tasks and multitasking.

had the choice of either pd-820 or pd-915, went with 65nm over the 90nm.

old-skool dual-core life...

 

[escrow4]

you won't believe it...

pulled out a dell optiplex gx520 from the dust

originally: p4/1GB/hdd/bad psu

intel pentium d 915
upgraded to 3GB
intel 530 SSD replacement
replacement psu

win7 sp1 x64 w/full aero theme
office 2010

utilizes integrated graphics...

runs 1080p video flawlessly, surfs any webpage and is completely stable/super responsive.
OS environment matches my i5-3rd-gen laptop w/plextor-m5m w/basic tasks and multitasking.

had the choice of either pd-820 or pd-915, went with 65nm over the 90nm.

old-skool dual-core life...

I don't. Post a video of it playing a youtube vid with a dozen other java/flash heavy tabs with a fat .pdf doc in the background and watch it die. You don't want lower than an i3 for any day in day out box that aims to have a shot at lasting.

 

[happy medium]

I'd donate them to the local Boy's club. LGA775 is dead.

MY q9550 is far from dead.:biggrin:

 

[fire400]

I don't. Post a video of it playing a youtube vid with a dozen other java/flash heavy tabs with a fat .pdf doc in the background and watch it die. You don't want lower than an i3 for any day in day out box that aims to have a shot at lasting.

oh, the haters...

your level of 'multitasking' isn't the same as for a family that wants to check e-mail and open up a 2010 word document while an offline-1080p video is playing in the background; which even at this point, is barely passing the 1GB margin of memory usage.

it's a Dell from the graveyard. the system is extremely stable.

and it, is awesome...

*woot *woot

 

[OBLAMA2009]

775 is dead cuz 4gb is dead

 

[VirtualLarry]

775 is dead cuz 4gb is dead

I don't see what that has anything to do with it. Most / all 775 CPUs could handle 64-bit, and P35 boards could handle 8GB. P45 boards could handle 16GB.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Now that conversation took a different place 775 is far from dead. The only reason I finally jumped from P35/775 to haswell is because I needed more than 8GB of RAM, some of my ram was faulty (infamous crucial ballistix), and because I got an awesome deal from Microcenter last year. If it wasn't for the convergence of those three factors, I would sill be rocking my 775 C2Quads. Sure, if you're encoding videos or playing videogames or do any kind of scientific work where you actually need CPU power 775 won't cut it anymore, but for the majority of office work 775 paired with a nice SSD is more than enough.

 

[dbcooper1]

I think 775 is too broad; core2duo is still good for many non-enthusiasts and office tasks but anything before that (p4 with or without hyperthreading, 8xx core duo series and to a lesser extent 9xx series) too power hungry, older motherboard and chipset, and generate too much heat in warmer climates. That's where I currently draw the line, anyway.

 

[pauldun170]

My Q9550 EP45-udp3 is probably the quietest, coolest running box I have.
Right now its configured with a Samsung 830 128GB plus to 2x 1tbHDD. Starts up quick and runs just as smooth as the 2700K or i3-2100 boxes I have.
I use to run VM's

There are times where it sits idle and I don't use it but when I do use it, it really useful.

For the average user, that old Q9550 box would feel like the average Haswell based rig bough off the shelf from Dell\HP\etc etc.

 

[pauldun170]

I think 775 is too broad; core2duo is still good for many non-enthusiasts and office tasks but anything before that (p4 with or without hyperthreading, 8xx core duo series and to a lesser extent 9xx series) too power hungry, older motherboard and chipset, and generate too much heat in warmer climates. That's where I currently draw the line, anyway.

I just helped a friend clean out a 6 year old core2duo based Dell machine.
After removing 6 years worth of malware and virus from that old Vista box it turned out to be nice little machine even with the old HDD. Replace the hdd with a proper SSD and toss Windows7\8 and it would be an awesome little box for general usage.
However, I wouldn't toss any upgrades at it with the exception of a SSD.

 

[escrow4]

Now that conversation took a different place 775 is far from dead. The only reason I finally jumped from P35/775 to haswell is because I needed more than 8GB of RAM, some of my ram was faulty (infamous crucial ballistix), and because I got an awesome deal from Microcenter last year. If it wasn't for the convergence of those three factors, I would sill be rocking my 775 C2Quads. Sure, if you're encoding videos or playing videogames or do any kind of scientific work where you actually need CPU power 775 won't cut it anymore, but for the majority of office work 775 paired with a nice SSD is more than enough.

It is. A surprising amount of places are chucking em for i3s (or i5s) which will last just as long and use half the power. I wonder how long the 4770 non K in my office box will last . . . . .

 

[BonzaiDuck]

"Upgrading" is also an issue of "turnover." If you're adept at moving used parts frequently for resale at EBay, upgrades may be more frequent.

If you're a nitpicker about your home-LAN infrastructure, data, cost of software licenses and other such things, you may hold onto that old Q6600 (or Nehalem . . . or Sandy Bridge) for a lot longer. Think of all this in a context of several household systems.

Take my server, for instance. It's an old 680i board with a Q6600 I picked up last year for $80. The board had been in storage for five or six years -- I merely forgot I had it. And as for the WHS-2011 OS, I'm going to squeeze blood out of a stone before I'm ready to replace it.

We're all part of a mindset here. We're all computer-obsessives. We can't help but think what wonders are around the corner with each new processor and chipset generation.

I have this perfectly good E8400 in a P45 board and 8GB RAM. For the last six months or so, it looked like it was slowly going south. I finally discovered that even Seasonic PSU's die of old age. But I'd already offered the CPU, board and half the RAM to a friend who can use it.

It's time to phase out LGA-775, but I'm going slow on this . . . about that . .

 

[Cerb]

775 is dead cuz 4gb is dead

I ran 775 as my main PC from 2008 to 2013 (almost a year ago, now) without 4GB. Why is that a problem? 4GB was dead while 775 was current, to me.

 

[cbn]

I ran 775 as my main PC from 2008 to 2013 (almost a year ago, now) without 4GB. Why is that a problem? 4GB was dead while 775 was current, to me.

+1

I ran a 775 with 2GB RAM as my main PC from 2006 to May 2014. (CPUs used E2180 and E6600)

 

[Cerb]

D: Other way: when RAM crashed post-Vista, I maxed out my board with 8GB . I was ecstatic that it was as low as $50/GB when I built the PC, then it quickly came down to $10/GB.

 

[VirtualLarry]

D: Other way: when RAM crashed post-Vista, I maxed out my board with 8GB . I was ecstatic that it was as low as $50/GB when I built the PC, then it down to $10/GB.

I remember when 2x2GB kits of DDR2 dropped as low as $40. I think I paid $37 per a 2GB stick of DDR2 though. Put 8GB in both of my P35 rigs. Win 7 64-bit was a Godsend.

 

[cbn]

I remember when 2x2GB kits of DDR2 dropped as low as $40.

Newegg still has 2x2GB kits starting at $43.99 free shipping:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...CE&PageSize=30

 

[VirtualLarry]

Newegg still has 2x2GB kits starting at $43.99 free shipping:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...CE&PageSize=30

I was talking about decent DDR2 RAM, like GSkill and Corsair, which are both still $70 or so.

 

[cbn]

I was talking about decent DDR2 RAM, like GSkill and Corsair, which are both still $70 or so.

Gksill DDR2 2x2GB starts at $55 free shipping currently.

But that RAM for $43.99 free shipping has good rating (72% five egg reviews) and a lifetime warranty.