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Posted: August 18 2013 at 2:39pm

Very simple question, remembering I am Scottish and we are very tight with our money...........

Just bought a new CPU so upgrading from dual core to quad core. Do I need to upgrade and change the heatsink and fan or will it work fine

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Posted: August 18 2013 at 3:46pm

I don't believe there's a definitive answer for that one. It may not fit if the socket is different. But if it does line up you could certainly give it a try, just keep an eye on your CPU temps and make sure it stays within range. I am assuming it's a stock cooler, so I wouldn't recommend overclocking.

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Posted: August 18 2013 at 5:42pm

What was your old cpu, and what is the new one?

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Posted: August 19 2013 at 2:58pm

Originally posted by Gadget

What was your old cpu, and what is the new one?

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Posted: August 19 2013 at 5:12pm

old one is e6550 @ 2.33. New one is q6600 @2.4, dual for quad. that's the highest cpu my motherboard supports.

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Posted: August 20 2013 at 4:13am

It will fit. From a quick look it looks like they are pretty comparable, drawing the same voltages and running pretty close to to same speeds. As long as you weren't close to overheating before, I would say you are safe to keep using the same cooler. I would keep an eye on temps to be safe, but I always like to do that. I recommend Coretemp. A good benchmark is 40 degrees Celsius, any higher and you may want to consider a new cooler.

Do you already have the new cpu? Most come with a new heatsink and fan if bought brand new.

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Posted: August 20 2013 at 5:21pm

no its second hand made, £25 on ebay, usually go for about £45 for that model in the UK but I got lucky. My tempretures are fine on my current CPU, but given the time I have had it then it was probably time to break it down and put some new thermal paste on it anyways.

motherboard supports up to 8gb of ram so that's next on my shopping list

thanks for the replys guys

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Posted: August 22 2013 at 4:41pm

happiness, into despair into hope.............

all fitted up, switched on, boot past boot screen only to be faced with a blinking cursor on the screen and windows not loading. balls

into bios and I can see the correct cpu listed in the bios menu, some hope there that the cpu is not defective.

fit the old cpu back and everything boots up.

so currently faced with 2 issues.........

does the mobo support the CPU (I think it does) so then is the problem my outdated bios settings.

Latest bios settings are 5.13 and I have 5.07. That opens up a whole new problem as you can only update the bios from HP using bloody vista as your OS. So in that case I am looking to set up a partition on my HD and do a wee install of vista on a dual boot just to get the bios setting up to date so that it can recognise and run the new cpu.

So there is 2 questions I face

is my new cpu supported by my motherboard.

should my outdated version of bois at 5.07 be able to run my cpu, if so then that may point to another issue

details as follows:

IPIBL-LA (Berkeley) motherboard

intel 05 q6600
core 2 quad
sl90m malay
2.40ghz /8m/1066/05b
L715A729

why is nothing ever simple!

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Posted: August 24 2013 at 5:32pm

bump your ignorant gits

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Posted: August 25 2013 at 4:37pm

might have the work around...............

this looks like a solution ....................

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=143930

DOS boot using the rom file extracted from the crappy HP installer

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Posted: August 26 2013 at 5:07pm

well managed to flash my bios. great success.

cpu still not working. bah

so either CPU is not working or the cpu is not supported by my board, I think it is ment to be

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Posted: August 27 2013 at 9:57am

I don't have too much time to dig right now, but did you visually inspect all of the pins on the CPU? I had an issue once when I had some seriously bent pins on a brand new CPU. Had it on the mobo side as well. Just look them both over.

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