AMD 10 9700 upgrade options

[rnice123]

Dell Inspiron 5675 8 GB DDR4 2400 MHz RAM
AMD A10-9700 CPU AM4 socket
AMD RX 560 GPU 2 GB Variant

What is the best AMD Ryzen CPU I can upgrade to with current motherboard?

Thanx

 

[Hellfire13]

Ryzen 1600/2600 would be good value for money. You will need a BIOS update for the 2600 though.

 

[kraelic]

This board has one x16 slot and motherboard graphics connector, then a 65W R5 1600 should work fine but you lose motherboard connected monitors. R5 2600 might not be supported, Dell does not update their bios to support new CPU. They make a new pc Dell Inspiron 5676 which has x370 motherboard and same part number for the 5675 with two x16 slots but there is a different BIOS for each system.

 

[Paul17041993]

Being an OEM motherboard, you'll have to check what CPUs they officially support, and of course make sure you have the latest BIOS installed before doing anything. The simplest option would be the 1400, as it's low power and definitely will be faster than the A10, you already have a dedicated GPU as well so that's not an issue.

When you look at higher performance models however, you'll want to be sure of two things;
- the TDP supported by the board (a lot of OEM's are only 65W), which shouldn't be a huge issue, but a high TDP model might need a fan over the VRMs.
- the RAM, ryzen has a lot of performance, but if you only have single-channel memory and at low clocks with loose timings, that performance won't be usable as it'll be constantly waiting for the RAM to complete data transactions.

There's another possible issue though that the board could rely on OEM-specific hardware, which means that standard off-the-shelf parts may not work in the system, and the existing parts may not work in an off-the-shelf motherboard either, so I'd be contacting DELL and trying to get as much info out of them as possible...

 

[rnice123]

Thanx...will be going for R5 1600 upgrade