What CPU should I buy on a £100 budget?

I just bought the HIS HD 4670 IceQ Edition 1GB graphics card and its bottle necking on my pc..

My current cpu is intel pentium 3ghz..

I got £100 was less.. Which cpu would be best ??

I need intel socket 775

I want to play my GTA IV... I no my NEW graphics card not amazing.. But it can play GTA IV.. Its on youtube.. reviews etc.. But it lags.. and my current cpu was like 98 usage in benchmark test :L

Also play cod4

I was thinking maybe

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139971

that is a great choice, make sure it is compatible with your MB

cheerz

I was just doing more searching..

£122.96 is pushing the boat out because at christmas im building a new pc anyway just trying give this one some life... and at £154.98 I could buy a http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131950 which is better and only like £30 more.. I really dont want to buy for that much.


So I come down a bit and found this which could be better then the £122.96 dual core one?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148933 £104.98

Is this worth buying ? and isit good?

Cheerz Again

You always answer my questions lol!

of those, the Q6600 or the E8400 in gaming you will get the same result, if you also do things like video editing,multitasking, and rendering the 6600 will have an advantage. im personally not a fan of the 8200.
the E8400 will take your 4670 as far as it can go without worrying about being CPU limited if gaming is your priority. cheers

e8400 all the way dont waste your money on a 4 year old quad core when your building a new system in like 3 months.

well there's two for the E8400!

Ancell, I think you're looking for a processor for your current mobo, right?
And for the rig you build in Christmas would you be using the same processor or a new one?

In case you are planning on buying a new processor for your later build then just go for the cheapest processor now that will not bottleneck your card. In that case the Q8200 will be fine enough for now. (But check your mobo CPU compatibility list.)

Yeah I got a p35 mobo.. Which support dual, quad.. So I should be ok there..

In that case il order the e8400 today if its going to be same as q6600 in game perfomrance

Its good to hear that the e8400 will bring out the max in my new card

I think my intel pentium 3ghz is slow.. And yesterday it just randomly froze.. I think my cpu has had it totally. It didnt freeze on the 7300 card I borrowed from me mate.. Think its 7300gs xD.. but it would on my 8600gt and now on this one.. Does bottle necking cause stuff like this?

And once again cheerz .. so the e8400, q6600 wil give me same performance in gaming?

Oh yeah also il just ask this aswell xD

Will I see a (big) difference when I replace it with my intel pentiumm 3ghz xD

(also yeah at christmas Im thinkin building a new machine tryin to save up around £800 so hopefully I can get some good stuff)

O and at christmas I would probaly buy a new processor everything new Apart from keyboard.. monitor.. mouse..

If you're buying a completely new processor in Christmas then just go for the cheaper Q8200 for your current build. No point spending more on the E8400 / Q6600 right now.

You should notice a big difference no matter which of these processors you're getting.

I dont mind spending a little bit more now on an E8400 if its better then the q8200?

If I wont see any difference between the two ?

Then il buy the q8200... Which one you reckon ?

If the E8400 or q8200 could run graphics cards like the new Nvidia GTX series then I would buy one of them and switch them into my new build at christmas.. But I dont think these would be good enough for them cards?

The E8400 will handle the GTX series just fine IMO. However, for your new build I would recommend you get something like the core i5.

Right now if you don't mind spending a little more money then definitely go for the E8400.

the E8400 will handle whatever card you throw at it, and the e8400 and the Q6600 are very close in game performance, due to the fact that most games only take advantage of 2-3 cores. the e8400 is 45nm as opposed to the Q6600 which is 65nm. the E8400 is a higher clock speed, and overclocks better as well.

don't buy the q8200 its not really a good cpu just get the e8400 and yes it will be a night and day difference over the Pentium 4 CPU you had it i would say is around 4 times as efficient as the old Pentiums and a lot faster even though the clock speeds are the same.

I ordered the e8400 with 1 day delivery So will be here tomorrow thanks for your help.. Il be checking back here when im going to build my next build aswell

As you just said red1776 funny enough I was just going to post about overclocking.. I have just reviews everywhere and lot people saying if you buy the e8400 you should at least overclock as its easy to overclock?

Is this true? I dont wanna screw it up. Last time I tryed overclock a cpu couldent get pc to start till I reset bios from mobo.. But hence my cpu was rubbish. People say they can get it 3.4 3.6 4.0 ... would any of them speeds improve it a lot ? If yes then im sure I can post around finding the safest way of OC it from bios. Hopefully there be no need to anyway.. but as I say lots people who have this on reviews keep saying its worth overclocking.

It's an excellent overclocker, the E8400.

yes its a great overclocker many people can get 4Ghz on air cooling but a safe speed for you might be 3.6Ghz it will get there easy ohh also make sure you buy an aftermarket cooler for the cpu dont overclock using the stock cpu heatsink fan that comes with the cpu.

How much of an improvment will overclocking it make ? If its big difference... Il browse around for a cpu cooler... How much would half a decent cooler cost? Dont want to spend loads. But if overclocking it will make a good difference ? Then Il see

your looking at around 40 to 60 usd dont know how much that is where you live but the range is decent and also overclocking will make a pretty good difference imo.