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[nekkid_animal]

Hello,
i have an asus /hp mother board with an e5300 cpu 2.6 ghz, chip. can i swap it out with a 3.40 mhz chip? the board is an ipibl-lb thank you

 

[nna2]

Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:

Intel Core 2 Quad (Y) Q9xxxx
Intel Core 2 Duo (W) E8xxx
Intel Core 2 Quad (K) up to Q6600
Core 2 Duo E6x00 (C) up to E6700
Core 2 Duo E4x00 (C) up to E4400

is you CPU from one of those series? (the one you want to buy)

 

[nekkid_animal]

i dont know it say's it's a sl7j8 sl8by

 

[nna2]

you want to upgrade to a 3.4GHz chip, what is it?

 

[nekkid_animal]

thats whats printed on it 3.4 ghz sl7j8 3435aj94

 

[nekkid_animal]

you want to upgrade to a 3.4GHz chip, what is it?

thats whats printed on it 3.4 ghz sl7j8 3435aj94

 

[nna2]

your current cpu has 2 cores, the one your looking to upgrade to has 1, so it would be more of a downgrade than anything

 

[phyco126]

As nna2 said, it will be a MASSIVE downgrade from what you have. I cannot stress this enough: IT. WILL. BE. A. MASSIVE. DOWNGRADE.

The E5300 is nearly, and in some cases more than, TWICE as fast as any Pentium 4 (which is the processor you have).

For more info, the processor you mention is a Pentium 4 550 3.4 GHz with Hyper-threading (http://ark.intel.com/products/27469/Intel-Pentium-4-Processor-550-supporting-HT-Technology-(1M-Cache-3_40-GHz-800-MHz-FSB))

However, that processor is 8 years old! The E5300 is much newer and much faster. Don't believe us? Check this out. This chart compares the E5300 to an 3.46 version of the Pentium 4 (http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/98?vs=93)

 

[nekkid_animal]

your current cpu has 2 cores, the one your looking to upgrade to has 1, so it would be more of a downgrade than anything

ok thank you