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I got a hold of an old Dell Inspiron 560 as well as a 600W PSU and Radeon HD 5750. I dropped the PSU and card into this and it works pretty well. I was wondering if I could get a Socket 775 quad-core CPU and put into this.

 

Which one would work?

Would I need to update the BIOS? If so, how do I upgrade the BIOS?

 

I realise that this is not the greatest PC on the planet, but I'd like to make it better. I believe it would be better to upgrade than to toss it and start from scratch.

 

Thanks for any help on this.

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Yes it will work BUT only if the BIOS supports it. (check to see if the quad core cpu you want was available for that exact system as an upgrade) You may need to update the BIOS..

 

But if the BIOS does not support it you will either need to get a modded BIOS (rare) or well... it just wont work :/

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