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Switching a CPU in a prebuilt

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I bought a prebuilt pc specifically for running Minefcraft because I don’t trust myself to build one, and I wasn’t sure if I could put a better CPU in it.. can someone please help me, Im not smart on these things. 
 

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The i5-9400F is not a bad CPU for Minecraft, what kind of performance improvement did you want, and how much money did you plan on spending?

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Budget? The 9400f is still decent especially for light tasks like Minecraft. 

3 minutes ago, PandoraSox said:

don’t trust myself to build one

Why? It's easy and there are plenty of guides out there. 

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If you get a good answer to the above post, ant cpu in the LGA1151 with the Cannon Point chipset will work.

At me or quote me, I want to hear your opinion.

 

Hopefully anything I say is factually correct. Sorry for any mistakes in advanced.

 

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4 minutes ago, PandoraSox said:

I bought a prebuilt pc specifically for running Minefcraft because I don’t trust myself to build one, and I wasn’t sure if I could put a better CPU in it.. can someone please help me, Im not smart on these things. 
 

https://www.newegg.com/hp-pavilion-tg01-0020/p/N82E16883997628?item=N82E16883997628

To help answer your question, no not likely to upgrade. The bios will be heavily restricted, they dont even show any other cpu for this build on the web site.

The best chance you would have is to try a cpu of the similar specs and wattage of the 9400.

 

Other than that, you're pretty much stuck with what you have unfortunately.

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3 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

A 9400f is a fine CPU for minecraft. If you want more performance I would recommend waiting two months for new graphics cards to release, and spending $200 on a budget GPU.

Thanks! Which one should I go for?

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2 minutes ago, PandoraSox said:

CPU I was thinking about the Intel Core i7-10700K.

Different socket. Can't sadly. 

 

2 minutes ago, PandoraSox said:

just want something that will be pretty good performance 

It's still decent I would say.  

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2 minutes ago, PandoraSox said:

my uneducated ass

Nah. You have to start somewhere lol..

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38 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

To help answer your question, no not likely to upgrade. The bios will be heavily restricted, they dont even show any other cpu for this build on the web site.

The best chance you would have is to try a cpu of the similar specs and wattage of the 9400.

 

Other than that, you're pretty much stuck with what you have unfortunately.

HP's actually usually fairly decent with that, because they use the same boards (or family of boards) in a wide range of machines, and for them it makes no sense to lock things down, because that'd mean having to support multiple forks of the same bios, rather than just one bios.

 

EDIT: PS: on topic: keep your cpu, it's fine, its not worth an upgrade...

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21 minutes ago, manikyath said:

HP's actually usually fairly decent with that, because they use the same boards (or family of boards) in a wide range of machines, and for them it makes no sense to lock things down, because that'd mean having to support multiple forks of the same bios, rather than just one bios.

 

EDIT: PS: on topic: keep your cpu, it's fine, its not worth an upgrade...

Generally, from what I'm to know through the years, this is true but generally up to a certain TDP.

 

Not adding Cpu code saves time and space. Proprietary, they can designate 1 cpu per board or all of them. That's entirely up to HP and how they want to market certain tier levels of their gaming machines.

No upgrade, must buy the better model. It's been that way as long as I care to remember. I think Dell was a lot more flexible with their XPS machines however....

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9 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Generally, from what I'm to know through the years, this is true but generally up to a certain TDP.

 

Not adding Cpu code saves time and space. Proprietary, they can designate 1 cpu per board or all of them. That's entirely up to HP and how they want to market certain tier levels of their gaming machines.

No upgrade, must buy the better model. It's been that way as long as I care to remember. I think Dell was a lot more flexible with their XPS machines however....

HP's overall pretty generous on the cpu side, because they recycle platforms so much. it's a rather long path to find out the supported cpu's, but the information is publicly available, and usually the options are quite generous.

 

you can bet your butt that it voids the hell out of any warranty you may have, but i've not seen them do any sort of bios lock, because it's usually all the exact same bios for a given platform, trough all the SKU's and formfactors.

 

while not adding cpu code saves time, not having a different bios for your different models saves even more time.

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