What CPU Is Better? Core2Duo Or Pentium D?

[Britton30]

Sorry about that chap, it is a fairly old board and you should get a bit of use out of it.

 

[Spudster]

It doesn't edit videos well so like to see it playing games anyway I guess I can get 3-6 months out of it then I upgrade to a ddr3 board that can easily play any game and video edit.

 

[Spudster]

Also should ask

Why would MSI bother refurbishing an old board? :/

There is a lot better boards out there

 

[Britton30]

I suspect no one refurbishes a board beyond trying a new BIOS chip and testing it. That would be only on current board too.

 

[Spudster]

They would of had to do something to make it more update to date
Also guess its away for them to make money.

 

[Spudster]

Forget it I'm going to go without a desktop for a few months, The piece of crap lags on video recording fells more then a laptop then a desktop....

How much do you think it's worth if I sold it including the gaming case.

If you need pictures let me know.

 

[Britton30]

You would have to list it on some sale site in Queensland. Things are worth nothing until sold.
What I do when using a selling site is this: Computer for sale $xxx OBO, OBO means Or Best Offer.

 

[Spudster]

Still debating if I should sell it I'm also trying to keep my channel running at the same time..

Thanks for the advice
If I do end up selling it I will do that

 

[Spudster]

It says here that Pentium is good and my old Pentium did video editing alright (designed for a newer socket though) and my socket type is only a few generations old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium
Would buying ä real graphics card fix the lag? I'm using the 128mb on board which could be putting strain on the CPU.

I got 2gb of ram that should be enough.

 

[Spudster]

So far from what i'm reading it shouldn't be the cpu the lag is more gpu releated.

Why else would msi still support this board with today's software
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Windows 7 is on the support list and the latest vga driver is from this year (2014)

So they wrote or uploaded a new driver this year.

 

[Britton30]

The latest VGA driver is almost 5 years old, that's ancient in PC technology. IT doesn't mean MSI is supporting W7 on an obsolete board, it just the newer driver also happen to work.

 

[Spudster]

Oh Ok I was looking at the wrong thing lol I meant the audio drivers where uploaded this year.

I got the board manufactured refurbished.

the board is windows vista certified so guess it would still work with 7 with no problems.