can my mobo fit Fx4170?

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i have a asrock icafe 770 mobo currently socketed with a 940T 125w. not a big pc genius and b4 i buy the fx4170 or the fx6300 i would just like to know if it will fit in my motherboard bc at this time i can't afford to buy both. plan to buy a new mobo next month. the GA-970A-UD3 is what i had in mind so i can xfire my gpu's and i have room to upgrade and oc more. my mobo won't allow me to do much bc of the bios. Thanks for putting up with my dumb questions, couldn't find anything on the icafe 770 only on the DE version.
 
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It's not just about at what frequency they run. There were Pentium 4's than ran 3.8 GHz, but modern archetectures beat them by a large margin. There isn't that big of a gap between generations in the processors we're talking about, but it...

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Should from the link Lazyboy947 posted.

The 4170 is a generation older than the 4300 / 6300. They are both a little faster and use less power than the 4170's generation. I'm not sure how much of an improvement going from the 940T to the 4170 would be (I don't think it would be that much). The 6300 would offer a 6 threads instead of the 4 that you currently have available and is probably the best option for ~$20 more than the 4300.
 

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i just saw that the 4170 was running at 4.2ghz and the 6300 is only running at like 3.6ghz. i have a decent watercooler on my cpu and it runs steady at 19C but stock its only running at 3.0ghz and even when i bump it up to turbo the mobo will only let me run this cpu at 3.2. the mobo also wont allow me to unlock or even try to unlock the last 2 cores that are hidden. the cpu is awesome, cool and reliable and one of the best i've had but the mobo was a poor choice for optimizing my performance.
 

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It's not just about at what frequency they run. There were Pentium 4's than ran 3.8 GHz, but modern archetectures beat them by a large margin. There isn't that big of a gap between generations in the processors we're talking about, but it still applies.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/352170-28-4170-4300
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/362699-28-4170-6300-synth-real-world-performance



http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/770iCafe/?cat=Download

It has the option of BIOS Download. You save it to a flash drive, boot the computer, enter the bios screen, insert the flash drive, and tell it to upgrade and point it to the flash drive.
 
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ok so the 1st 2 option for the 2.0 bios says its for windows 8. i'm still using windows 7, i prefer it actually but the 3rd option says just windows so is that the bios option i should pick and save on my flash drive? i'm a noob at pc software sorry
 

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http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/770iCafe/?cat=Download&os=BIOS

I would recommend the "Instant Flash" option. Click the red plus sign next to it to see how it's done. Basically, you save the file to the flash drive, reboot the comptuer and press the button to enter the motherboard settings (press "F2" repeatedly right after you turn on the computer until system goes into BIOS setup). Insert the flashdrive now (some comptuers won't boot properly with flashdrives left in them) Somewhere in there, it will have the Asrock Instant Flash utility. Tell it to read the bios update from the flash drive.

Oh, I think I read the last post wrong. If you prefer to do it in windows, go with the windows option. You can go with version 1.90 or 2.0. Again, the little red plus sign next to the download has the instructions on how to install it.