upgrading Pentium D 945 to Intel Core i7 2.66 GHz

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nwngeek212

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What can I expect as a change?
Will my current hard drive work with the new motherboard?
I know I have to upgrade the RAM for sure
I'm a noob at all of this, so please help
 
Hi, the hard disk drive should be fully compatible. A bit more information is needed however, such as which motherboard are you getting, what hard disk drive have have you got?

The performance increase you'll see will be the difference between night and day.
 
Yeah, upgrading to a core i7 system would at minimum involve upgrading to new motherboard, ram, possibly cpu cooler if your not gonna be using the stock cooler. Depending on your hard drive though, you may want to upgrade to a newer faster/larger capacity drive.
 
With the hard drive, make sure that board has SATA inputs and not parallel/IDE inputs. You might need to also invest in a new video card depending on if the one that you have is PCI-E or if it's AGP. If you have the ability, it would be good to post the entire list of your current computer's parts so that we could ensure compatability.
 
Yeah, you're gonna need a new everything pretty much. If you plan on doing any overclocking, a new cooler is a good idea, but still not necessary. I'm going to guess and say your HDD is fairly old and therefore low capacity, so I would recommend a new one anyway, you're shelling out for an i7 system, better to just go the whole nine yards with it rather than wish you hadn't cheaped out. But, then again, that's just me.
 
More info:

HD - Seagate 320 GB Sata 3.0 Gb/s
Kingston DDR2 RAM
Video Card - nVidia GeForce 7600 GS PCI-E

most probably I will get ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard and G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory
 
That gpu will work in your new system, as will your hard drive. I would still recommend that you go for a newer gpu with that rig, as the 7600gs is a pretty old card, and since your upgrading to i7, might as well upgrade the gpu while ur at it;)
 
El quad core said:
I am not being sarcastic. 3 ghz is pretty fast and the D is pretty powerful as far as pentium's go.
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While it's good for a pentium, its still a pentium. I'm getting a savage bottleneck on my PEE 3.2Ghz, which, correct me if I'm wrong, is a better processor. You'd run some games fairly well, as I do, but anytime anything heavily based on physics kicks in, say good bye to your playable frame rate. While i can play Far Cry 2 90% of the time at solid frame rates and a fair bit of eye candy, with the actual benchmark tests, I get a whopping average of something like 15 FPS.It's a worthwhile upgrade nonetheless, considering I don't have to buy a new card when I build my new rig, and you will be able to play modern games, but you will most likely not use the full extent of your card.
 
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