I am sorry if this is located somewhere and if it is can I be pointed in the right direction. I currently want to upgrade my CPU to a core 2 duo E8400. I currently have a intel pentium D 820 and the motherboard is a asus emery. the supported chipsets are Socket: 775 Supports the following processors: Pentium D 800 series (Smithfield) Pentium 4 600 series (Prescott) Pentium 4 HT (Prescott)
I was just wondering if I can install the core2duo E8400 without getting multiple errors or crashes and if it will be stable.
Again sorry for the newb question and if the answer is somewhere here.
Almost certainly, you can't upgrade to a Core2Duo. There were hardware changes in the switch to Core2Duo CPUs, so any motherboards from before the switch cannot support any Core2Duo CPUs.
You may be able to upgrade to a Pentium D 9xx CPU if your MB BIOS supports it, but that won't give you much of a speed increase over your Pentium D 820. On the good side, even though you'll need a new MB, if your RAM is at least DDR2-667 or faster, you can reuse it on the new MB with your new CPU.
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AFAIK, there was never any DDR2-266 RAM made; perhaps you mean DDR2-533, which uses a 266MHz bus clock? If so, you'll need to get DDR2-667 or faster RAM for a 1333MHz FSB CPU such as the e8400. Good luck!
Message edited by Mondoman on 04-26-2008 at 12:48:32 AM
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