Rant Should have looked closer....

Just bought a cheap i3 PC on Gumtree this morning across town. Checked first what the i3 was - 2nd/3rd gen Core @ 2.3. Got it home and it's s1165 (H55) running an i3 540 @ 2.08 Grrr.
Looks like I can get a £10 Xeon quad on the bay that will bump it up to 4 core for homework/surfing.
#Firstworldproblem #suchdissapoint
V-T sorry to hear you're ill again mate, keep taking the tablets and rest.

 

Should be running at 3.06, Tre. And on 1156.

How much did you pay for it?

 

Forum was glitchy and I thought this hadn't posted....

Yes, when written properly the i3 is 3.07 in a socket 1156. I paid £40 for it with 4Gb of DDR3, 250GB HDD, IDE DVD writer and a tatty Silverstone LC05 low profile case. The H55M D2H is quite nice with a full length 4x PCIE slot in the bottom position; I can test my PCIE 4x M.2 drive adaptor in it.
The case was put together badly, and once I'd replaced 6 case screws with ones with the correct thread, it felt a lot better.
It got better again when I was able to OC the CPU up to over 4GHZ with old school multi / baseclock adjustments . Haven't run Prime yet, but it was fun for an hour or so fiddling to see how much I could push it.
As per my other post, I did have a go at the guy who said it was s1155, and claimed it was old and he'd forgotten.
No one hurt and still have a working (faster) PC that should be fine for homework to replace a s775 rig.

 

Board is prob worth what you paid alone, stop moaning

 

Thanks Neil, I feel better already Pssst...wanna buy an H55M D2H at £40?
Any thoughts on Xeon vs s1156 i5 CPUS?

 

They are the same they just have different speeds.

Get the cheapest X3430 you can find and clock it.

Unless you can find a X3450 cheap which has HT like a i7.

Oh one thing Xeons don't have a GPU like the Clarkdale i3 you have now so youd need a GPU if you went quad.

 

Thanks mate, I bumped my daughter's H55 ITX from G6950 (going free on the MP...) to i5 750 so had to pop in a cheap graphics card to get round the lack of IGP you mentioned.
Having looked yesterday, an X3430 is £10 on the bay at the moment, with X3440 with HT coming in at just under £30. X3430 + cheap GPU looks the way to go. Shame that HD 5450 in the drawer was dead when I finally got to use it.