Hp Pavilion Erica 2 motherboard
2 hours ago, AceMVP8 said:I appreciate it. Yeah it's a mini ATX. So I'm a newbie, what do you mean CPU support? I can't find the max speed anywhere but thinking it's 2666 because that's what it came running. It originally only had 1 stick so I bought a matching stick. I just recently bought a new kit of g.skill Ripjaws 5 16gb (8×2) 3200 ddr4 cl 16,18,18, 38. The best I got them running was 3200 cl 18,18,18, 38,56 bit that's when I got the message from stability tests on Aida64 hardware failure. So yesterday I set them at 2666.
CPU support meaning the CPUs it will accept. A normal CPU support list for an H310 motherboard would say that all 8th and 9th-gen Intel Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5, i7 and i9 processors are supported by the board. If HP were to license the same board and have it produced specifically for one of their systems, there's a good chance they'd lock it down to supporting only a couple of i3 SKUs, maybe an i5-9400 if you're lucky. If you ask, they'll tell you it's because they only test the hardware the system was designed for as a way of ensuring there are no compatibility issues. In truth, it's because they've locked down their BIOS so you can't buy the $699 system running an i3 and drop in an i7-9700, essentially bumping yourself up a few tiers in pricing for much less than buying the upgraded model would have cost.
Seriously, anyone and everyone who tries to tell others to buy an HP or Dell prebuilt and upgrade it themselves is playing Russian roulette. Sure, there are worse things in life than overpaying for an i3-based "gaming PC", but if you jump for joy because you found one open-box at Best Buy for $400 and can't wait to drop in the i5, GTX 1650 Super, 16GB of DDR4-3200 and WD Black NVMe drive you have lying around, odds are you're going to be disappointed when at least one of those ends up being incompatible.
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