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So I’ve been planing a upgrade from a pentinum g4400 to a intel i7-7700k but I’ve done the research i needed but im still not sure if i need to get new motherboard or if my motherboard is support it 

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What is your motherboard?

Main PC:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X • Noctua NH-D15 • MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk • 2x8GB G.skill Trident Z Neo 3600MHz CL16 • MSI VENTUS 3X GeForce RTX 3070 OC • Samsung 970 Evo 1TB • Samsung 860 Evo 1TB • Cosair iCUE 465X RGB • Corsair RMx 750W (White)

 

Peripherals/Other:

ASUS VG27AQ • G PRO K/DA • G502 Hero K/DA • G733 K/DA • G840 K/DA • Oculus Quest 2 • Nintendo Switch (Rev. 2)

 

Laptop (Dell XPS 13):

Intel Core i7-1195G7 • Intel Iris Xe Graphics • 16GB LPDDR4x 4267MHz • 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD • 13.4" OLED 3.5K InfinityEdge Display (3456x2160, 400nit, touch). 

 

Got any questions about my system or peripherals? Feel free to tag me (@bellabichon) and I'll be happy to give you my two cents. 

 

PSA: Posting a PCPartPicker list with no explanation isn't helpful for first-time builders :)

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1 minute ago, DanUnicorn said:

So I’ve been planing a upgrade from a pentinum g4400 to a intel i7-7700k but I’ve done the research i needed but im still not sure if i need to get new motherboard or if my motherboard is support it 

What board? Also is this a used or new 7700k? If new don't bother if used maybe. The 7700k gets beaten by 100$ cpu's nowadays so really it's not a good deal and you might as well sell the current stuff and get onto a new platform.

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All boards that can handle g4400 can handle 7700k too, but sometimes you must update bios and in most cases oc will be impossible (only Z170/Z270 boards). This upgrade has only sense if you can find really cheap (and working) 6700/7700 cpu. For regular price it's now a joke.

 

If you want to be sure your motherboard is compatible with cpu, every producer publish complete cpu list (witg bios version required) that works with motherboard.

 

If you can find that cheap used cpu somewhere, it will be still good processor.

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11 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

All boards that can handle g4400 can handle 7700k too, but sometimes you must update bios and in most cases oc will be impossible (only Z170/Z270 boards). This upgrade has only sense if you can find really cheap (and working) 6700/7700 cpu. For regular price it's now a joke.

 

If you want to be sure your motherboard is compatible with cpu, every producer publish complete cpu list (witg bios version required) that works with motherboard.

 

If you can find that cheap used cpu somewhere, it will be still good processor.

Fair warning for OP, this doesn't apply to really low-end boards, and OEM boards. YMMV.

 

+1 for others commenting on the 7700K getting equalled by $100 CPU's.

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

Server: AMD Athlon PRO 3125GE, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 ECC, TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.1

Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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6 hours ago, svmlegacy said:

Fair warning for OP, this doesn't apply to really low-end boards, and OEM boards. YMMV.

 

+1 for others commenting on the 7700K getting equalled by $100 CPU's.

If producer have cpu on supported list then it will work. I don't know why so many people think that only 200$ boards works. No, any H110 can handle i7 without oc. Other features will be limited, but it will run.

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16 hours ago, homeap5 said:

All boards that can handle g4400 can handle 7700k

I honing in on this point specifically. I've had OEM boards lock-out K chips before.

Always check the support CPU list for guaranteed compatibility.

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

Server: AMD Athlon PRO 3125GE, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 ECC, TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.1

Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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5 hours ago, svmlegacy said:

I honing in on this point specifically. I've had OEM boards lock-out K chips before.

Always check the support CPU list for guaranteed compatibility.

I bet that OP don't even read our posts. :)

 

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