Can I upgrade my cpu with out blowing my Motherboard

[John1985]

Hello, I am thinking bout upgrading my CPU in my Dell 570 it's at the moment a AMD Athlon II x2 250 am3 socket (938) Max TDP is 60w
My mother board is a Dell 04GJJT chip set amd 785G south bridge AMD SB700 LPCIO ITE IT8720 Can I upgrade it to thishttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871 with out worries?

 

[the1corrupted]

The only thing you really have to watch is the wattage on the motherboard's CPU socket. I'm sure that Dell (being the wonderful people they are) have a motherboard socket wattage of maybe 60W just to spite your efforts, and thus, is only rated to handle a 60W processor.

Chances are, though, that you can upgrade the CPU (and seriously, just get the Phenom II BE). In most cases, an AM3 socket was manufactured to handle a 125W processor. Just don't expect anything better. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727