Cpu upgrade question

I would say 'Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz)' as looking at the spec sheet for the P965 chipset it only supports up to 1066mhz FSB. That said.....maybe if you can get a BIOS update from Dell you can stretch to a Core 2 Duo E6850 (3.00GHz,1333FSB). There's no mention of support for Quad core or Core2 Extreme <see below> so I think you'll be limited to the 65nm era C2Ds (could be wrong though)

http://www.intel.com/cd/products/services/emea/eng/chip...

All this said though...... I used to have this board

http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5W_DH...

which is S775 but the 975 chipset and with a bios update it was able to support pretty much any S775 cpu with some caveats. Then again Asus last sent out a BIOS update for that board in 2010 so it's whether Dell has been as nice about it's boards.

Hope this helps a little.

Thanks for that input. From the little I've looked so far I was thinking maybe 2.6 would be close to as high as maybe could get and you solidified that idea so far. I did update my bios couple weeks ago but it's a couple years old itself. Guess I'll try to find some bios notes hopefully and find out if can look into something higher.

Alright, thanks guys. That's answered my question for me and now I know what I'm going for.

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