Whats the best processor I can throw on my Mobo ?

Samuel4u · Post by **Samuel4u** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:15 am

Since all the new stuff is coming out in a month or so, I have decided to wait it out for the better pricing !

In the mean time, I want to try and see if I can beef up my dinosaur and get it to run AoC on the lowest setting(just to get started)

Whats the best processor I can throw on this mobo and get it to work? intell says the 3.06 p4...Intel® Desktop Boards - D845PECE

Would it even be worth it ??? if I pick one of those up on the cheap and overclock it to 3.5.... will I be ok ??

the rest of the computer has a 128MB AGP Radeon 9800 , 378mhz GPU clock speed (stock)
and 2 GB of pc2700 333mhz ram on a 19'' monitor I believe....I can use my 17'' if its too much for the 19''.

would I even be able to get playable frame rate???

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:22 am

Samuel4u wrote:Since all the new stuff is coming out in a month or so, I have decided to wait it out for the better pricing !

In the mean time, I want to try and see if I can beef up my dinosaur and get it to run AoC on the lowest setting(just to get started)

Whats the best processor I can throw on this mobo and get it to work? intell says the 3.06 p4...Intel® Desktop Boards - D845PECE

Would it even be worth it ??? if I pick one of those up on the cheap and overclock it to 3.5.... will I be ok ??

the rest of the computer has a 128MB AGP Radeon 9800 , 378mhz GPU clock speed (stock)
and 2 GB of pc2700 333mhz ram on a 19'' monitor I believe....I can use my 17'' if its too much for the 19''.

would I even be able to get playable frame rate???

What processor do you have now?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:14 am

With a 3ghz P4 you would basically be at the bare minimum specs to run the game.

David · Post by **David** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:59 pm

I do believe the 3.4GHz prescott will work.

You would be better off nabbing

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 813157115R

and one of these that might fit your budget...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... =Allendale

and you can still use all the rest of your old parts.... depending on your power supply.

Allendale's can be overclocked easily to 3.0.