Upgrade CPU for 780i Motherboard

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shawneric

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I know what you're going to say, "It isn't cost effective to upgrade the CPU on this board"...well, I don't have the money to go out and buy a new motherboard, which means I have to look at upgrading all of my other components to my PC. It's more cost effective to upgrade the CPU for now until I can just buy a new computer later.

Here's my current specs:

Intel Core2 Quad Q8200
8GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Motherboard is on BIOS Version P09

My CPU does not support Virtualization, so that's definitely something I want but it sucks anyways. It's always getting over taxed with my high end usage. I don't have a decent cooling system and can't afford to get one. Trying to research what CPU's my motherboard supports and which one is the best one is utterly confusing to me.

Any help would be immensely appreciated. Thank you.
 
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Look at passmark.com and do a search for your processor, just enter Q8200. It will give you the score (2839) and also tell you the socket: LGA775.
You can probably put any LGA775 processor in there, although the BIOS of the motherboard has to support it.
If you look at cpu-world.com for LGA775 you will get a list of processors:
http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket%20775%20(LGA775).html

Then you can look at passmark.com again for each processor and then look up pricing on eBay/Amazon, etc. and find the one that is the best bang for the buck.

For example, the Q9650 scored 4271 (about 50% increase in performance) and costs anywhere between $50 and $100 on eBay.
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Look at passmark.com and do a search for your processor, just enter Q8200. It will give you the score (2839) and also tell you the socket: LGA775.
You can probably put any LGA775 processor in there, although the BIOS of the motherboard has to support it.
If you look at cpu-world.com for LGA775 you will get a list of processors:
http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket%20775%20(LGA775).html

Then you can look at passmark.com again for each processor and then look up pricing on eBay/Amazon, etc. and find the one that is the best bang for the buck.

For example, the Q9650 scored 4271 (about 50% increase in performance) and costs anywhere between $50 and $100 on eBay.
 
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^ Agreed. Q9550 or Q9650 are still pretty solid CPU's even today. And they love to overclock if you're into that. I have a Q9550 in an old gaming rig and it does very well for what it is.
 
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shawneric

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Thanks!!! I've ordered the Q9650 as my replacement and it should be here in a few days. I'll do some benchmarks and see how things go! Now I just gotta work on getting Windows 10 to accept my NVIDIA graphics card! lol, had to downgrade to Win7 for now until they fix that mess.
 
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It is possible to get around that. Download the Windows 10 ISO by using the media creation tool. Use software to mount the ISO (Virtual CloneDrive is a free one I recently used), then run setup from there. Once Windows 10 is installed you can run the latest NVidia driver install.
 
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shawneric

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I'm not the only one having this issue. It's that Windows 10 itself is incompatible with the NVIDIA drivers.
 
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I had the issue myself with a couple of Nvidia cards, one being a 6150SE that is supposed to work but the compatibility check didn't like it so I couldn't upgrade. I had to do what I described in order to install Windows 10. Have not tried it with a card like yours yet though.
 
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shawneric

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I have two cards, both have the same exact issue.

1. Win 10 was already installed and working for over a month.
2. Only when the graphics card under went heavy stress did the following happen:


  • -Screen goes black
    -System will not respond to any commands or movement
    -If audio is playing it will continue to play
    -Cannot ping or remote connect to machine
    -Requires reboot to come back online
    -No error log, only a 'warning' regarding the display, very vague warning.
    -No BSOD

I finally forced a bsod by swapping from one graphics card to the next, but it too was extremely vague. However, serveral other users reported the exact same situation with no fix, from the time that win10 came out until now. I've even asked NVIDIA and Windows for a solution, no response.

I have the following cards:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
 
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