ipibl-lb CPU Compatability

[diamondpic02]

Ok so I have this really outdated HP Pavillion running a e5300 at 2.6 ghz looking to give it more spice so it could play esports type games with ease. I was wondering if I could upgrade my CPU to the q9650 but I was wondering if the extreme edition to that cpu (qx9650) was compatable, or even the Pentium Extreme 955.

-My bios is the most updated (5.43)
-Is the motherboard even capable of giving a cpu enough power?
-If you did an upgrade like that what would you reccomend?

 

[Obakasama]

We would need the motherboard details to know the answer to your question. Find out what it is so people can help.

If there is no documentation use something like Piriform's Speccy to check what components your PC has. It should name your motherboard.

 

[diamondpic02]

Oh the name of the motherboard is in the title (ipibl-lb), running latest bios, with a g33 chipset.

 

[diamondpic02]

Its made by asus

 

[Obakasama]

I did wonder about that string of letters in your title. Never occurred to me it was the motherboard name....

The Q9650 is compatible according to this: http://ark.intel.com/products/31914/Intel-82G33-Graphics-and-Memory-Controller#@compatibility

The QX9650 isn't compatible with the chipset of your motherboard: http://ark.intel.com/products/33921/Intel-Core2-Extreme-Processor-QX9650-12M-Cache-3_00-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB#@compatibility

 

[alexpetifer]

their are more versions of that motherboard... I also have IPIBL-LB, but it is different from yours. My latest BIOs is 5.37 and it only supports Q9650 95W CPUs not high power QX9650 ones... you must search it by your computer HP name and in HP website you will find all the information... i think you can not use more than 95W CPUs... search it like> HP "model" drivers/specs on google... you can also run 771 Xeons in it...