I bought an Intel DZ87KLT-75K motherboard six years ago, added a Core i7 processor and moved it into my good tower along with a new power supply and graphics card. The mb has developed some sort of intermittent problem so I bought a matching used DZ87KLT-75K. Of course I tried to find new, but I couldn’t. The processor on the used board came with an Intel engineering sample (Q4EK). This appears to be a XEON e5620.
Am planning to just swap this motherboard for my existing one, but what should I do about the processor? Should I replace it? With what?
PS. You might be wondering why I bought the same old motherboard. It is because I want to continue to use Windows 7. My current Intel board supports a dual boot Windows 7 Windows 10 Desktop Computer. Dual boot because after buying Windows 10, I really disliked it. If I’m lucky, my computer tech tells me I can just swap boards and be up and running without having to reload the two OSs. I hope he is right.
Advice, comments and opinions welcome.
Am planning to just swap this motherboard for my existing one, but what should I do about the processor? Should I replace it? With what?
PS. You might be wondering why I bought the same old motherboard. It is because I want to continue to use Windows 7. My current Intel board supports a dual boot Windows 7 Windows 10 Desktop Computer. Dual boot because after buying Windows 10, I really disliked it. If I’m lucky, my computer tech tells me I can just swap boards and be up and running without having to reload the two OSs. I hope he is right.
Advice, comments and opinions welcome.
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