We bought our son a used Dell 3000 i3847-3850BK desktop recently. He's a college student in Intelligent Systems Engineering and wanted a desktop to fiddle with. He loves gaming too. It comes with a 4th generation Haswell 3.5 GHz Intel Core i3-4150 processor. According to all I can fine, it can be upgraded to a Intel Quad Core i7 (4th Generation) and I think the model it would take is an Intel Core i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) BX80646I74790K. Could you let me know the following?
Let me know on the above and thank you!
Mike
- If you know, is it correct that we can do this upgrade?
- Seems like there are used ones available for $85 (used, from China) to $255 at Amazon (new, boxed, BX80646I74790K). Is it safe to get a used one?
- If we get one should we also get thermal paste? I used to build PC's in the past and assume this is still needed. Any recommended type(s)?
- Should we get a new fan? In the past I always replace fans with processor upgrades, but not sure if that's a need. Current fan in working on the i3.
- Will there be a performance boost? The machine has 8gb of memory and we were going to upgrade it to 16gb. Do you think the memory will provide any boost?
Let me know on the above and thank you!
Mike