CeX have the Intel Core i3-3220 Socket 1155 cpu for only £15 collected or + £2.50 delivery. CeX also give 2 year warranty:
CeX offers a 24 month warranty* (on all items purchased on or after 14th Nov 2015) on all items except consumables. The CeX 24 month warranty* does not cover physical damage, water damage, or any damage caused by unlocking a mobile phone, and only covers software faults arising in the course of normal use.
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mannin
6 Aug 17#1
Cex is two years warranty on everything I thought?
KiNG
6 Aug 17#2
i was looking at the warranty terms, within 6 months they will refund at full price or get it fixed, after the 6months to 24months they will give you market value only !!
Agharta to KiNG
6 Aug 17#3
Which is fine on a £15 CPU especially as the market value is hardly likely to fall much and these are almost certainly more than this on ebay with no warranty. Buying CPUs that can't be overclocked doesn't have much risk.
superivanho
6 Aug 17#4
That's pretty good deal. I have the same model and bought as new from amazon for £90 5 years ago and still runs fine. Coupling with 8Gb ram and GTX 960 still can run most 201x games smoothly at 60fps @ 1080p.
f_a_b_i_o_48 to superivanho
7 Aug 17#47
Lies
superivanho to f_a_b_i_o_48
7 Aug 17#48
what? youtube it before you accused people lying..... wth is wrong with you....
I'm sure you're the sorts of people who randomly rant about, like "oh this news is fake" "oh it's all lies" just because someone's opinion is different to yours. Smh.
f_a_b_i_o_48 to superivanho
7 Aug 17#56
Don't need to be to sassy about it.. chill out man hahaha
superivanho to f_a_b_i_o_48
7 Aug 17#57
lol typical.
PeteW
6 Aug 17#5
These are an ideal upgrade for anyone with a Gen8 HP Microserver, which I know are quite popular round here.
bsmaff to PeteW
6 Aug 17#11
Do these actually work with the Gen8?
gkdkfcd2003 to bsmaff
6 Aug 17#13
I wouldn't recommend it. The TDP is rather high, the CPU to use for the Gen8 is the i3-3220T (T being 2 core, no hyper treading and a lower TDP)
bsmaff to gkdkfcd2003
6 Aug 17#16
What CPU would you recommend for the Gen-8?
Ideally looking for one around £50-70 most people seem to recommend the Xeon
lbeedee21 to bsmaff
6 Aug 17#17
I've done 2 cpu upgrades - from stock to an i3-3240 and from there to an i5-2390t. I'd say there's a huge step from stock to i3 - I only sprung to the i5 for hardware virtualisation which ended up not working for other reasons however the difference in plex transcoding is superb - we regularly transcode 2 and sometimes 3 hd streams at the same time and scanning through the video stream is sub 5 seconds rather 10's of seconds.
Winterwolf to lbeedee21
7 Aug 17#55
I'm upgraded to i5-2390 as well ... Seems to be running fine, and got a couple of mates who access my plex libary remotely all the time and havent run into any issues.
Though one of my HDD bit the dust last night ... So a new WD Red ordered to fix the Raid1! ..... The green I had lasted for around 4 years 24x7 constant use, so cant complain
JoeSpur to gkdkfcd2003
7 Aug 17#41
Would that give a respectable performance boost over the stock cpu? Would it even be worth the hassle
Bah, I have the previous 2 models :disappointed: Wonder if it'll fit the T20......
Edit: nope, that's an 1150
Avenger1324
6 Aug 17#6
not really sure who this deal is aimed at.
Yes it's a cheap (used) processor, but it was released in 2012 and is only an i3. That really narrows the group of people that are going to have any use for it, since they either have a system using that socket, in which case an i3 is unlikely to be an upgrade, or you need to buy 5 year old parts to make a system.
If you have a system of that age (socket) and need to replace just the CPU, would you really limit yourself to just £15 when you could have a Quad core (i5 2400) for just £32, or the once highly sought after gamers CPU i5-2500K for only £45 though that is out of stock.
Agharta to Avenger1324
6 Aug 17#8
For a general usage box for web browsing and other light duty this Ivy Bridge i3 might well be faster than that Sandy Bridge i5. People running a 2Ghz Sandby Bridge Celeron would find this gave them much more headroom as even for general usage that chip would struggle at times whereas this is probably twice as fast.
paulpso to Agharta
6 Aug 17#10
lol this is no where near that i5. Sandybridge to Ivybridge was just a transistor shrink. Hardly any performance gains came of it. And this is dual core vs quad. The single thread performance is already significantly better than the i3. So with 4 real cores and not 2 with HT. This doesn't stand a chance. Still for a basic browsing movie playing box this is decent at £15 if you can find an old 1155 board and a bit of ram. And if that's all it would be used for the igpu would suffice too.
Agharta to paulpso
6 Aug 17#24
Try reading what I actually said and respond to that. Of course the i5 is faster under heavy loads but for the usage I described those 4 cores would never get loaded so the i3 would be just as fast.
Your suggestion that Sandy Bridge has significantly better single thread performance is curious. The i3 has about a 3% IPC advantage and the i5 about a 3% clock speed advantage when running a single core which cancel each other out. If you load two cores the i5 drops 100MHz leaving the i3 with a tiny advantage. It's only when you fully load 3 or 4 cores that the i5 takes a big win. That's all I'm saying.
joe_shmoe to paulpso
9 Aug 17#66
Actually, this is incorrect. The i5 2400 has a turbo speed of 3.4 gig (single core) which results in single thread score 1743, whilst the later ivy bridge i3 has a base clock (no turbo) of 3.3 gig = single thread 1760.So no difference in general windows tasks. The i5 can however be turbo boost overclocked 400 mhz all 4 cores on a Z chipset board,and possibly some quality mid range boards; (not 'everybody' knows that ;#} ).
paulpso to joe_shmoe
9 Aug 17#67
I was never talking about the 2400, I was talking about the 2500k. But yeah 4 actual cores it would handle more modern games a hell of a lot better than a 3220
runnybabbit
6 Aug 17#7
This got me looking on there; Celeron G1610 for £1.50! At that price they'd be useful as dual-purpose troubleshooters / functional socket covers when selling 1155 motherboards.
adderrson
6 Aug 17#9
Ivy bridge in general is pretty great for getting into PC gaming. An i7 3770 will only set you back about £90 on CEX. The issue with LGA 1155 however is getting a good price on a decent motherboard.
If you already have an old one kicking about though, you could build a solid machine with ivy bridge even to this day.
Oneday77 to adderrson
6 Aug 17#35
Now you have me thinking.
I was about to build my son his first PC with a spare boxed Asus Z77 LX2 motherboard I've had for ages, along with a GTX1050 and an i5-3450 I've salvaged from an old work PC. Might sell the MB and buy a Ryzen setup for me and he can have my 2500k....oooh the possibilities.
adderrson to Oneday77
7 Aug 17#45
The sad thing is that Z77 board would likely sell for more than a new Ryzen Mobo if it's still new in it's box haha
Oneday77 to adderrson
7 Aug 17#51
It is new in box :muscle:
joe_shmoe to Oneday77
8 Aug 17#58
Which matters nothing,as c.e.x. do at least test functional. Even tho the warranty is absolutely worthless.
darthstatto
6 Aug 17#14
This is my current CPU, I've been using it since it was new about 6 years ago and it has served me well in my gaming PC. It's getting long in the tooth now though and I'm looking at moving to Ryzen.
Still, at this price, if you pair it with a newish GPU you will be able to play all the latest games at a reasonable clip.
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CeX offers a 24 month warranty* (on all items purchased on or after 14th Nov 2015) on all items except consumables. The CeX 24 month warranty* does not cover physical damage, water damage, or any damage caused by unlocking a mobile phone, and only covers software faults arising in the course of normal use.
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Buying CPUs that can't be overclocked doesn't have much risk.
youtube search i3 3220 60fps 1080p. it's flipping easy....
I'm sure you're the sorts of people who randomly rant about, like "oh this news is fake" "oh it's all lies" just because someone's opinion is different to yours. Smh.
Ideally looking for one around £50-70 most people seem to recommend the Xeon
Though one of my HDD bit the dust last night ... So a new WD Red ordered to fix the Raid1! ..... The green I had lasted for around 4 years 24x7 constant use, so cant complain
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Wonder if it'll fit the T20......
Edit: nope, that's an 1150
Yes it's a cheap (used) processor, but it was released in 2012 and is only an i3. That really narrows the group of people that are going to have any use for it, since they either have a system using that socket, in which case an i3 is unlikely to be an upgrade, or you need to buy 5 year old parts to make a system.
If you have a system of that age (socket) and need to replace just the CPU, would you really limit yourself to just £15 when you could have a Quad core (i5 2400) for just £32, or the once highly sought after gamers CPU i5-2500K for only £45 though that is out of stock.
People running a 2Ghz Sandby Bridge Celeron would find this gave them much more headroom as even for general usage that chip would struggle at times whereas this is probably twice as fast.
Of course the i5 is faster under heavy loads but for the usage I described those 4 cores would never get loaded so the i3 would be just as fast.
Your suggestion that Sandy Bridge has significantly better single thread performance is curious.
The i3 has about a 3% IPC advantage and the i5 about a 3% clock speed advantage when running a single core which cancel each other out. If you load two cores the i5 drops 100MHz leaving the i3 with a tiny advantage. It's only when you fully load 3 or 4 cores that the i5 takes a big win. That's all I'm saying.
The i5 can however be turbo boost overclocked 400 mhz all 4 cores on a Z chipset board,and possibly some quality mid range boards;
(not 'everybody' knows that ;#} ).
If you already have an old one kicking about though, you could build a solid machine with ivy bridge even to this day.
I was about to build my son his first PC with a spare boxed Asus Z77 LX2 motherboard I've had for ages, along with a GTX1050 and an i5-3450 I've salvaged from an old work PC.
Might sell the MB and buy a Ryzen setup for me and he can have my 2500k....oooh the possibilities.
Still, at this price, if you pair it with a newish GPU you will be able to play all the latest games at a reasonable clip.