Hi, I was given a used Dell Optiplex 380 business computer (had viruses and couldn't be bothered to remove them) recently. It has a Pentium E5400 in it. I also have a C2D E6750 lying around in a computer with a bad motherboard. Would it be worth my time to swap the C2D in? They have roughly the same clock speed, but the C2D has a higher FSB speed, double the L2 cache, but is also 65nm vs the Pentium's 45nm. I guess my main question is, would there be a significant heat increase with the 65nm C2D, and if so does it outweigh the other benefits?
I assume the motherboard would be fine running it, unless it is locked down by Dell. This seems to be the motherboard:
http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_itemdetail.aspx?itemid=1463781546
These are the two processors:
http://ark.intel.com/products/40478/Intel-Pentium-Processor-E5400-(2M-Cache-2_70-GHz-800-MHz-FSB)
http://ark.intel.com/products/30784/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E6750-4M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB
I assume the motherboard would be fine running it, unless it is locked down by Dell. This seems to be the motherboard:
http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_itemdetail.aspx?itemid=1463781546
These are the two processors:
http://ark.intel.com/products/40478/Intel-Pentium-Processor-E5400-(2M-Cache-2_70-GHz-800-MHz-FSB)
http://ark.intel.com/products/30784/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E6750-4M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB