Alright, so I'm trusting that more than one person will reply to me this time -- my last thread had only one reply and it has been up for months. Anyway, I have a Dell Optiplex 755 USFF, and I'm looking to mod it a little. So I know that you can get LGA771-compatible Xeons and mod them with a little sticker thingy to make them work in LGA775 motherboards. Well, that's what I'm looking to do. The computer I have does have an LGA775 motherboard, so I want to buy a Quad Core 3.0GHz 12M L2 Cache processor along with the sticker mod to put in my computer.
Although, I do have a few problems: Will it work with the BIOS I have (I believe it is Dell's A22, if not I will upgrade to that), and will the power supply (the only PSU you can get for this is an external 180 watt, I believe) suffice? If the BIOS won't work, can someone either mod one for me to work with it, or can you tell me a way to mod the BIOS, or download some kind of other BIOS or something? And.. if the PSU won't suffice, it just probably won't. Dunno how I would change that. Also, I don't know if the TDP will work out, although I do know that Xeons aren't supposed to get that hot. It is a fairly small but around average-sized heatsink, although I have been thinking about also adding an extra fan to this (I also am putting an acrylic window in the side panel of this, I already have some purple LEDs in it :lol
. And I also plan to put Yosemite on it (I would have it double-booted with Windows 7, which I already have on here).
So yeah, I'm modding this thing a lot. But I just want you guys to answer those things about the processor, TDP, PSU, and BIOS (and if you want, tell me how to make it a Hackintosh).
Thanks
UPDATE: I did a PSU calculator thing, and it said that the minimum PSU wattage should be about 166W.
Although, I do have a few problems: Will it work with the BIOS I have (I believe it is Dell's A22, if not I will upgrade to that), and will the power supply (the only PSU you can get for this is an external 180 watt, I believe) suffice? If the BIOS won't work, can someone either mod one for me to work with it, or can you tell me a way to mod the BIOS, or download some kind of other BIOS or something? And.. if the PSU won't suffice, it just probably won't. Dunno how I would change that. Also, I don't know if the TDP will work out, although I do know that Xeons aren't supposed to get that hot. It is a fairly small but around average-sized heatsink, although I have been thinking about also adding an extra fan to this (I also am putting an acrylic window in the side panel of this, I already have some purple LEDs in it :lol

So yeah, I'm modding this thing a lot. But I just want you guys to answer those things about the processor, TDP, PSU, and BIOS (and if you want, tell me how to make it a Hackintosh).
Thanks
UPDATE: I did a PSU calculator thing, and it said that the minimum PSU wattage should be about 166W.