Identifying a CPU.

[JSTombstone]

Hello 

 

I have an old computer that I found in my house, it was bought some time between 2008 and 2009. Anyway I was looking into salvaging some parts from it to build a PC for a younger member of my family. It's not a custom built PC it is an off the shelf Dell XPS Studio 8100. Therefore i'm not really interested in re-using stuff like the motherboard or PSU, it's all pretty cheap nasty looking stuff.

 

However one thing that I am interested in re using is the CPU. I think it may be an intel i3, which based on the year that I bought the computer would make it a 1155 socket sandy bridge. However I can't be sure of this so I want some way of identifying it, and no I don't still have the box or manual anymore =(. 

 

Obviously I could just boot it up and check in computer specifications, but currently the PC isn't bootable,

 

I want to know if I could just take it out of the motherboard and there is some way of identifying it, by like a marking of some sort either on the cpu or motherboard.

 

 

Any help would be great thanks. 

[Cazzman]

intel chips have their specifications written on the CPU itself, if you clean off the thermal paste you should see what type it is

[007agentHP]

if its an intel, they usually list the name of the cpu on top of the cpu itself after you remove the heat sink.

[X1XNobleX1X]

 

If you clean off all the thermal paste on the CPU, there should be the model number of the CPU, like the picture below: