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So my parents have this old inspiron from quite literally almost a decade ago with an old celeron g470 for work at their family business. From the Hardware specs i could gather this seems to be it: https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-inspiron-660s-slim-tower-celeron-g470-2-ghz-4-gb-500-gb-us/. And recently was looking into upgrading but was put off by the cost of a new machine that their IT guy quoted them. Anyways their current pc is, obviously, very slow and affects their work flow quite often because of this, so I thought a basic cpu, ram, ssd upgrade on the cheap might be enough. As far as the CPU though i just wanted to get the thumbs up from others on here and see if something like a I5 2405s would be compatible with whatever motherboard dell has in it, it seems to be compatible as far as I know because I looked up the list of cpus that would work with that b75 chipset. The thing that would concern me though is if there were to be a bios update required for this to work or anything of that sort and possibly the higher tdp but I dont think that should be a big issue. Thanks in advance for any input.

Gaming Rig:

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x  Cooler: Wraith Prism    RAM: 32gb G.Skill Tridentz RGB 3200mhz     Mobo: Asrock X570 Taichi

Graphics Card: Powercolor Red Devil RX 5700 XT     Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Dark TG     PSU: Corsair RM850x     

Storage: 250gb Samsung 960 EVO, 2TB Seagate Barracuda

 

HTPC/VR Rig:

CPU: Ryzen 5 1600     Cooler: Noctua NH-L9a     RAM: 16gb Crucial Ballistix Sport 3200mhz     Mobo: Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Wifi ITX

Graphics Card: Powercolor Red Devil RX 580 8gb     Case: Fractal Design Node 202     PSU: Corsair SF600    

Storage: 120gb Kingston A400, 500gb Samsung 860 EVO

 

Streaming Rig:

CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 @ 4ghz OC     Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition    RAM: 8gb Corsair Vengence LPX 2400mhz     Mobo: ASRock B450 Pro4 MATX

Graphics Card: Powercolor Red Dragon RX 570 4gb     Case: Inwin 301 White/Blue     PSU: Evga 450BR    

Storage: 240gb Crucial BX500, 1TB Seagate Barracuda

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