jobo
Grandmaster
In short i've bought a new toy, a dell all in one computer, Off the worlds worse con man, He was trying to pass it off as 2017 machine running to perfection, when in fact its a 2012 machine with soft ware issues. Whilst only charging what would be a very fair price for a 2012 machine, $70. The lack of USB 3 gave it away, but i bought it anyway
I was going to reinstall windows 7, which he had replaced with windows 10, but after running malware soft ware and removing 800, [ EIGHT HUNDRED] adwares, Malwares, pups and god knows what else its running just fine.
its got an i3 processor and 4g of ram( which is easy to upgrade] and I really should leave it alone as I wanted it as a music player/ storage device and the high res audio out of it is superb.
But I have to mess, which brings me to processors, My understanding is, that as it was designed to run the i5 and the 17 processors as option, up grading them to such is easy
However I cant find clear answer to the following.
Is it only processors of the same generation that will work, The socket spec hasn't changed for several generation later ?
Will I have to update the bios, I would need to download this before changing over ?
And where i'm really getting muggy, is an i5 processor( my local shop has a 2nd gen for sale at a very reasonable price} with a lower clock speed an upgrade or a down grade ?
My current processor is 3.3 Ghz and the potential replacement is only 3 Ghz, but obviously with double the cores and hyper threading. So will that translate into real world performance gain, considering all i use it for is playing music, internet browsing and playing old games on or should I just leave it alone ? and go and mess with the mountain bike instead
I was going to reinstall windows 7, which he had replaced with windows 10, but after running malware soft ware and removing 800, [ EIGHT HUNDRED] adwares, Malwares, pups and god knows what else its running just fine.
its got an i3 processor and 4g of ram( which is easy to upgrade] and I really should leave it alone as I wanted it as a music player/ storage device and the high res audio out of it is superb.
But I have to mess, which brings me to processors, My understanding is, that as it was designed to run the i5 and the 17 processors as option, up grading them to such is easy
However I cant find clear answer to the following.
Is it only processors of the same generation that will work, The socket spec hasn't changed for several generation later ?
Will I have to update the bios, I would need to download this before changing over ?
And where i'm really getting muggy, is an i5 processor( my local shop has a 2nd gen for sale at a very reasonable price} with a lower clock speed an upgrade or a down grade ?
My current processor is 3.3 Ghz and the potential replacement is only 3 Ghz, but obviously with double the cores and hyper threading. So will that translate into real world performance gain, considering all i use it for is playing music, internet browsing and playing old games on or should I just leave it alone ? and go and mess with the mountain bike instead
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