how much is the performance deteriorated for my CPU on this mobo

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My CPU is intel i5 2400 3.1GHz, without over clocking, which is still perfect after five years of time but my previous motherboard failed. Now my board is Asus H61M-K which is a very basic board. The salesman said , not very clearly, that
the performance of my CPU is not fully utilized on this board but only this board is LGA1155 that supports my CPU. Would anyone please help check if this is the truth and how actually the performance would be affected. Thank you!
 
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Hello... 1) You could put a FAN in the direction of those caps and regulators, if you plan on keeping it.
2) You could locate a 3000 series replacement CPU (used), "Lower watt", if you plan on keeping it.
3) You could use a "power option setting" to limited the CPU's Top/boost speed, if you plan on keeping it.
4) You could run tests to lower your CPU voltage, in the BIO's, and still operate/boot all your tasks... and lower the default setting/power use that way.

Peace of Mind seems to be your main problem now... only YOU can find the right solution for that... as stated above the thermal and power needs are different for the 2000 series CPU's vs the 3000 series... and it is a "un-known" how this will effect this MB construction. Some...
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Your choice of motherboard will not in anyway effect your cpu they will run at full speed regardless

The only way it will effect it is if you have a K seris cpu as you need a z series board to overclock
 
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The motherboard, unless an extremely poor made no-name board will not hinder your CPU.

Things fail, it happens. ASUS makes mostly quality products.

 
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Yup the salesman is right. That board is a pure budget board and not designed to handle the thermal capacity of your CPU. It will not work.

Always invest the most into your motherboard. Desktop CPU's are NOT low powered devices. They need high quality voltage regulation to be stable and perform well.

Consider other options.
 
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??
The main difference between different boards is features, not performance.

There is zero reason to "Always invest the most into your motherboard."
You seem to be saying always buy the most expensive motherboard for a particular socket.

False.
 
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Interesting opinion.



Overheat? It won't work my friend. The CPU is not supported. It is a 90watt CPU, the max your board supports is 77. Please consider another option.

 
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Yes the i5-2400S is supported not the i5-2400.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H61MK/HelpDesk_CPU/
 
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That board won't work not because it is 'cheap', but simply because it is the wrong board.
 
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Hi all above, now I am using that CPU and that board right now , logging into windows, browsing the web, typing on the forum here.

you guys said：""It does NOT work?? " What does that mean??

Now I am very confused. I don't know if it means it will fry my CPU or my CPU will fry the board sooner or later

It's the first day and it's the board recommended by the salesman and technician in the shop and they should be responsible in case it really will have problems.

I will talk to them seriously but first I need to confirm if it's really bad for my intel i5 2400 LGA1155 on this Asus H61M-K board
 
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Are you positive you do not have the 2400s? It is the lower watt version of your CPU.

If you do in fact have the 2400, and you have it working with that mobo, then congratulations. You just made a CPU that is not compatible boot up and work.

More than likely it will overheat the VRM's. Those are the big black squares and surrounding area near the CPU. You have to keep these cool at all costs.
 
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I am very confident that it's intel i5 2400 but NOT 2400S, at least from windows system hardware details and the intel box set I remembered (lost now). I remember about "3.1GHz", which is not related to 2400S as I've checked the specification details.

Now what should I do? keep cooling the CPU all the time???
 
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Apparently your CPU is not officially supported by that board, as the board is only showing a 2400S. But you say you are confident it's a 2400, because it's default clocked at 3.1 GHz, so I'm convinced you're actually running an i5-2400 in an officially unsupported motherboard.

If that's the case, like Themastererr said, congratulations, you did a thing.

If it's actually working, it's possible the board might not be able to cope with that CPU properly, or the board was flashed to support it, but was never reflected on their website to show that's the case. I'm suspecting the caps that supply direct power to the CPU might be the first thing to fail if that CPU isn't supposed to be supported, but you can just ride with it and see how it works out for you in the end.

The CPU isn't what's going to overheat, the CPU is cooled by the cooler you put on top of it. Speaking of that, you DID use thermal paste, right? You put thermal paste on top of the CPU just before you put the cooler on. The way I do it is I put a pea drop in the middle of the cpu, and then I lower the block onto it and squish it back and forth to try spreading it out and to get any possible air bubbles out.

What they're talking about overheating/failing, again, is the capacitors on the board supplying the power to the CPU. There will likely be NO performance difference, but who knows if the motherboard will keep up for years to come.
 
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<<<<<<<<<< part of the quoted from what you said, caps?? Do you mean capacitor? Do you mean capacitor on the motherboard or the capacitor inside the power supply that will be likely to fail ??



Yes, thermal paste has been used. I don't know if keep removing the dust from the chassis around will help a little bit
 
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Ok lets straighten this out.

While its not on the support list, usually a CPU of the same socket typewill still work anyway (for example some people use AMD 9xxx series processors with boards that have no business running them). Now just because it runs and boots up, doesn't mean it should be running together.

Most likely in this case its that the board cannot deliver the wattage the CPU needs to run at full speed, so that will drag down performance, or it will try to catch up and overheat the VRMs.

In the end light office tasks, you're fine, gaming, not so much.

Personally I would return it and get the correct motherboard.
 
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I don't play any games. I don't overclock. Most of the time I watch youtube videos and sometimes I do graphics with GIMP.

Is it fine?


Anything I can do by myself now to stop the overheat or damage to the motherboard and CPU ?

I do not mind having speed or performance deducted.
I am a budget user... I do not want to take it to repair shop again a few months later and spend another hundreds of bucks for all the dishonest service again.
 
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Its running fine now its not going to overheat, you'll be fine. Those tasks are not intensive. If you were doing intensive stuff it would be a problem.
 
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Hello... 1) You could put a FAN in the direction of those caps and regulators, if you plan on keeping it.
2) You could locate a 3000 series replacement CPU (used), "Lower watt", if you plan on keeping it.
3) You could use a "power option setting" to limited the CPU's Top/boost speed, if you plan on keeping it.
4) You could run tests to lower your CPU voltage, in the BIO's, and still operate/boot all your tasks... and lower the default setting/power use that way.

Peace of Mind seems to be your main problem now... only YOU can find the right solution for that... as stated above the thermal and power needs are different for the 2000 series CPU's vs the 3000 series... and it is a "un-known" how this will effect this MB construction. Some people live on the "edge" better than others, with electrical/electronic/parts OR mods. I run a power supply on this system, that if posted, would bring extreme criticism and negative Posts... but I have complete Peace of Mind using it. B /
 
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