Thread: Upgrading to core 2 duo

hi!
i am having intel p4 and i am bored with it.its too slow.i am planning to upgrade to intel core 2 duo......
How much will it cost and will windows vista and windows 7 run smoothly on it.......

Originally Posted by theplayer

hi!
i am having intel p4 and i am bored with it.its too slow.i am planning to upgrade to intel core 2 duo......
How much will it cost and will windows vista and windows 7 run smoothly on it.......

it will cost you board+processor around 10k i took it 4 months back & was 11.2K

yes vista & win 7 both are running smoothly on it.....
if you are ready to invest more make a dream PC man go for quadra core

Originally Posted by kirankumargb

it will cost you board+processor around 10k i took it 4 months back & was 11.2K

can you please tell in indian rupee.

player the price is in INR itself k=1000

While mobo+processor will cost 11K+, don't forget that the new mobo will be supporting SATA and most likely old PC has PATA disks. Hence all disks (including CD/DVD-ROM/RW) will also need replacing.

Overall this is like a complete upgrade to the CPU box. Expect a budget of minimum 20K.

Originally Posted by just4kix

Hence all disks (including CD/DVD-ROM/RW) will also need replacing.
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I think in every latest board there is 1 PATA slot for the CD ROM, hence can connect 1 HDD & 1 CD ROM.........

Correct me if i am wrong......!

Yes. That is possible. But somehow, people advise on most tech forums to have HDD and optical drive on different channels.

yes ... one reason is HDD will always be running so when writing a CD if the same channel is used there might be chances of data corruption in CD & once CD is corrupted its waste ... so that might be a reason.....

the DVD/optical drive can be connected via IDE and the HDD can be connected via IDE to SATA converter, maybe as a secondary backup disk coz I don't know about its performance.

My Core 2 Duo 2.5 Ghz and DG35EC Mobo together cost me 9000/-

Originally Posted by just4kix

Yes. That is possible. But somehow, people advise on most tech forums to have HDD and optical drive on different channels.

Originally Posted by kirankumargb

yes ... one reason is HDD will always be running so when writing a CD if the same channel is used there might be chances of data corruption in CD & once CD is corrupted its waste ... so that might be a reason.....

When I used P3 with CD drive on the 815 mobo , it was working fine. but after the 9xx series came I think HDD and Optical drives needed to be separate channels otherwise the system doesn't boot.

will it change the motherboard?

Originally Posted by theplayer

will it change the motherboard?

Sorry , I didn't get the meaning ... what will change the mobo ?

@newprouser

if i upgrade to core 2 dou then the motherboard will be changed or not?

Originally Posted by theplayer

@newprouser

if i upgrade to core 2 dou then the motherboard will be changed or not?

Which motherboard are you currently using. I need the model number ~ something like Intel 815g etc

i dont know but i think that it will be changed because i am currently using pentium 4 and it is very old.............

Yes, it quite possible.

Motherboard will have to be changed because latest processors will not work with old motherboard. Even if they did (extremely unlikely), they will be hampered - quite like having a 4000cc engine in a reeking body/chasis.

Originally Posted by theplayer

will it change the motherboard?

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no doubt it WILL change the mother board there are a lot of reasons for this but the simplest it in P4 processors have pins at the bottom but in C2D processor dont have pins but the board itself has it.....

Finally my dad agreed to upgrade and i will upgrade it on 16th march.
thanks guys for your help!

Hey!guys
i got a last thought and i bought a new computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by the way thanks for your advices!

gr8... congrats...

wats the config.... ?

Processor- Intel Core 2 duo @2.00 GHZ
RAM- 1015MB
OS-Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit
Graphics-a graphics card with directx 9.00 c
HDD- 160 GB

Cool!

good good, how much ?

do u mean cost?????????
its 30 thousands

Which brand of PC ? HCL , HP... ?

30,000 for core 2 duo desk pc?

is it me or the cost seems to be a little high?

i bought quad core with 4gb ram desk pc for about 47k one an half year ago!