[SOLVED] i5 3470 on intel h61 express motherboard?

[UserNameIsMyUserName]

Will an i5 3470 work on a Intel H61 express mobo with no new bios available. Previously upgraded from a pentium g630 to i5 2400s.

 

[tennis2]

What's the brand and model # of your mobo?

 

[UserNameIsMyUserName]

It's an Acer motherboard and I'm not sure what the model is. It originally came from a Acer aspire x1930

 

[tennis2]

Hmmm. No guarantees then. I also don't think an i5-2400S to i5-3470 is a worthwhile "upgrade".

 

[ChumP]

It's an Acer motherboard and I'm not sure what the model is. It originally came from a Acer aspire x1930

It won't work... Acer does not have any BIOS updates for your X1930. A BIOS update is required to run 3rd gen Intel CPU on a H61 motherboard.

Some people had I5-2320 configurations with that Aspire X1930... that's a 95W TDP CPU.
The best you could do to upgrade the CPU is an I7-2600... it will improve performance by having a higher clock speed and 4 more threads.
Though I don't believe that CPU upgrade is worth it as you won't see that huge of an improvement. As @tennis2 said, you'd be better off building a whole new system.

 

[tennis2]

Yeah, I agree that the i7-2600 is the best COMPATIBLE CPU you're going to put in that system (there was also a version of the X1930 that came with a 2nd gen i7, so that's a safe bet).

Whether the i7-2600 is worth the upgrade.....depends on the price.