- Apr 5, 2016
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I have an old dell optiplex 745 and decided to upgrade it (Originally a Core 2 Duo 4300 1.8GHz). I thought I couldnt upgrade it to a core 2 quad due to the motherboard not supporting it but saw others online saw success using it when upgrading the bios to 2.4.1. So I have updated the bios and installed the q6600 in it to see if it would work.
I installed my windows 10 pro 64bit to find it install slowing, me thinking it was due to the usb slowing me down (Idk probs was). Opened up windows 10 perfectly and it seemed to be working fine, until i tried opening task manager. This cause the computer to freeze and when it loaded wanted me to verify task manager and then once done the task manager window was blank. Doing simple things such as opening files seems fine until you do a couple of actions then it slows way down. Generally you have to wait up to 5 seconds after opening a window to do anything. Generally Really Bad performance for basic use.
I am wondering is the issue due to the processor not being supported (Or the processor itself), a bios issue when I installed it (Didnt due the usual flash method via dos as others stated that they only needed to run the file) or a problem associated with windows 10. I do have windows 7 I can install but it was handier at the time to install 10.
System Specs below:
CPU: Q6600 (Not overclocked but was hoping to do the tape trick to get it to 3.0GHz)
GPU: GT610 2GB (Only to allow setup, if it worked i was going to upgrade to something like a gtx 750)
Ram: 4GB ddr2 Standard ram (667MHz)
PSU: Dell 350w
HDD: Basic 2.5 inch 250GB
Thanks for any help.
I installed my windows 10 pro 64bit to find it install slowing, me thinking it was due to the usb slowing me down (Idk probs was). Opened up windows 10 perfectly and it seemed to be working fine, until i tried opening task manager. This cause the computer to freeze and when it loaded wanted me to verify task manager and then once done the task manager window was blank. Doing simple things such as opening files seems fine until you do a couple of actions then it slows way down. Generally you have to wait up to 5 seconds after opening a window to do anything. Generally Really Bad performance for basic use.
I am wondering is the issue due to the processor not being supported (Or the processor itself), a bios issue when I installed it (Didnt due the usual flash method via dos as others stated that they only needed to run the file) or a problem associated with windows 10. I do have windows 7 I can install but it was handier at the time to install 10.
System Specs below:
CPU: Q6600 (Not overclocked but was hoping to do the tape trick to get it to 3.0GHz)
GPU: GT610 2GB (Only to allow setup, if it worked i was going to upgrade to something like a gtx 750)
Ram: 4GB ddr2 Standard ram (667MHz)
PSU: Dell 350w
HDD: Basic 2.5 inch 250GB
Thanks for any help.
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