Sandy Bridge to Ivy

[Sokol]

[not a fluent english speaker so please bare with me]

So I want to upgrade my CPU without changing my motherboard because my rig is on a low budget, I currently have an i5-2400 (LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge) and I want to upgrade to i7. I googled and I found that i7-2600 is an option and I wanted to upgrade to that, until I found i7-3770(K) but that CPU isnt Sandy Bridge its Ivy Bridge and it has a FCLGA 1155 socket. I know that FCLGA and LGA is the same socket (correct me if Im wrong) but my question is:

Is it compatible with my mb (PC is HP 8200 Elite Microtower and the mb is Hewlett-Packard 1494)? And if it is do I have to upgrade my BIOS because my current one is J01 v2.15 and on the HP support page the latest one is v2.28 .

 

My 2nd question is:

Will it make a differance going from an i5-2400 to an i7-3770(K). I only do some simple csgo edits and play 3 games and thats CS:GO, Fortnite and sometimes LoL

 

 

Thanks everyone who is trying to help 

[Skiiwee29]

You would need to look up the specs from HP to see if that CPU is supported. Likely will require a BIOS update at best, and at worst since its an OEM system, it wont be supported. 

[Fasauceome]

the difference between the 2600 and 3770 is pretty small performance wise, I wouldn't concern yourself with 3rd gen compatibility too much.

[Sokol]

5 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

You would need to look up the specs from HP to see if that CPU is supported. Likely will require a BIOS update at best, and at worst since its an OEM system, it wont be supported. 

On HPs site it says the PC is compatible with 2600k but there is no Ivy Bridge

 

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

the difference between the 2600 and 3770 is pretty small performance wise, I wouldn't concern yourself with 3rd gen compatibility too much.

So should I get the 2600k? And if I do does it make a visible differance between going from i5 2400?

[Jurrunio]

20 minutes ago, Sokol said:

Will it make a differance going from an i5-2400 to an i7-3770(K). I only do some simple csgo edits and play 3 games and thats CS:GO, Fortnite and sometimes LoL

Depends on the GPU

 

10 minutes ago, Sokol said:

2600k?

dont have to go K, the standard 2600 will do when you can't overclock anyways.

[Sokol]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

Depends on the GPU

 

dont have to go K, the standard 2600 will do when you can't overclock anyways.

I have a Asus Expedition 1050 but in like 5 months Im planning to getting a 1070 for my birthday, I don't think it will have a huge bottleneck

[Jurrunio]

Just now, Sokol said:

I don't think it will have a huge bottleneck

with a 1050 of course it won't, but with a 1070 it will. That's my experience with a 2600k overclocked to run much faster than you will in a prebuilt system

[Sokol]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

with a 1050 of course it won't, but with a 1070 it will. That's my experience with a 2600k overclocked to run much faster than you will in a prebuilt system

But will I get an perforamance impact when I switch from my 2400 to 2600k. And is the bottleneck on 1070 be huge? Or should I just save up for birthday and upgrade everything later on in the year

[Jurrunio]

Just now, Sokol said:

And is the bottleneck on 1070 be huge?

Huge, especially since I have my memory settings cranked up as well and csgo only cares about a single core, making frequency an even larger factor.

 

 

[Sokol]

5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Huge, especially since I have my memory settings cranked up as well and csgo only cares about a single core, making frequency an even larger factor.

 

 

Ah unlucky, well Im just gonna upgrade temporarily and then upgrade everything in my system later, thank you all for the help provided ❤

[asand1]

HP generally doesn't release bios updates for next gen CPUs, it cuts into sales. Get the i7 2600. Your Mobo won't overclock so don't get the K CPU unless u want the slightly higher base clock (not worth it in my opinion.)