Question Changing the Mobo of Lenovo M58p Tower

[ngftsa]

I changed the CPU of my Lenovo Thinkcenter M58p to Core2Quad Q9650 from a Core2Duo E8400. However because it is an OEM board, it doesn't support OC. Can I change the mobo to another LGA 775 socket standard ATX board which can fit in the chassis so I can overclock the processor?

 

[Lutfij]

Your first hurdle would be to find an matx LGA775 board that's in good condition to overclock. Used boards might not hold up in 2023. Second hurdle would be the front panel connectivity. That board's notorious for having some weird front panel pinouts. The other would be that you'd have been better off just sourcing a build with parts from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA or their ilk, not a prebuilt, would've helped keep costs down, perhaps.

You're also going to come across bad thermals due to the overclocking in 2023, then change the case out eventually for better airflow. You're already walking into that avenue where it's no longer the prebuilt that you got.

 

[ngftsa]

Your first hurdle would be to find an matx LGA775 board that's in good condition to overclock. Used boards might not hold up in 2023. Second hurdle would be the front panel connectivity. That board's notorious for having some weird front panel pinouts. The other would be that you'd have been better off just sourcing a build with parts from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA or their ilk, not a prebuilt, would've helped keep costs down, perhaps.

You're also going to come across bad thermals due to the overclocking in 2023, then change the case out eventually for better airflow. You're already walking into that avenue where it's no longer the prebuilt that you got.

I found this board available as new is it any good?

P5P41T LE - Support

www.asus.com

 

[DSzymborski]

I found this board available as new is it any good?

P5P41T LE - Support

www.asus.com

No. And I doubt it's actually new; a lot of sellers simply lie. Plus, really, new isn't even good at this point; that means it has to have been stored somewhere for 15 years in unknown conditions, with the capacitors never used. A "new" motherboard from 2009 is arguably a worse choice than one that's actually been used consistently. And if, for some reason you really want to spend money overclocking this CPU by getting more hardware -- a bad idea given the very marginal gains -- you can't just get by replacing a low-end prebuilt motherboard with another budget motherboard. You'd have to get quality hardware for the time, and that's going to cost a decent amount of money used. And really, you need a new case as well. And if you have the cheap prebuilt Lenovo PSU, you're going to need a new PSU that you can trust to overclock. You'll also need a new cooling solution.

I'm sorry, but this whole idea is half-baked. If you got the Q9650 running, you've already done as much as possible that isn't completely wasting money. If you want to actually overclock a Q9650 enough for it to matter, you're basically going to have to spend as much money on proper hardware as it costs to get a computer that would absolutely destroy any overclocked Q9650 that ever existed. A cheap refurbished $100-$150 Haswell-era office PC would crush anything you could ever get out of this machine. This is a textbook case of throwing good money after bad. You simply didn't have any of the foundation for this; prebuilts are basically disposable PCs.

 

[Bob.B]

I changed the CPU of my Lenovo Thinkcenter M58p to Core2Quad Q9650 from a Core2Duo E8400. However because it is an OEM board, it doesn't support OC. Can I change the mobo to another LGA 775 socket standard ATX board which can fit in the chassis so I can overclock the processor?

Are you running a windows OS?

If so is it a retail version?

 

[USAFRet]

I changed the CPU of my Lenovo Thinkcenter M58p to Core2Quad Q9650 from a Core2Duo E8400. However because it is an OEM board, it doesn't support OC. Can I change the mobo to another LGA 775 socket standard ATX board which can fit in the chassis so I can overclock the processor?

Agree with all of the above - This is simply a bad idea and waste of money.