Scrap yard build help

[real2end]

hey i am working a on scrap yard build and i am wondering will a 2 quad core e6600 work on the curent mother board i hav here it use to have a penium 4 on it and i am working on a nice scrap build i am also working on getting a new power susply and a new gpu so any help on what to get for would be help full the pics bellow are of the mother boar 

[Atmos]

Do you know what pentium 4 that is? Some are 478 or 432, but some later ones are 775 which is needed for the e6600.

[Firearm2112]

The core duo runs on socket LGA 775 and the pentium runs on PLGA 775. No idea what the P means

[gurnben]

Do you know what pentium 4 that is? Some are 478 or 432, but some later ones are 775 which is needed for the e6600.

Hey, I'm real2end's techie friend who convinced him to build this pc.  I found out that it is an LGA 775 socket... but I sent him here to make sure a core 2 quad q6600 would work before he ordered it, also, what would be a good cooler for this?  Probably air cooling. 

[ApolloX75]

@real2end & @gurnben

It's seriously a bad idea to use a Dell board. There is very little support for them, especially in the realm of BIOS updates. If this board held a Prescott Pentium 4, then I seriously doubt it will handle a Q6600 or any decent Core2Duo even. If its limited to an 800MHz FSB then it will most certainly not work with anything past an E4700.

 

Get me some details on the motherboard (ie: what Dell model it came out of, what CPU it has in it, even a motherboard model number) and I'll dig up info for you.

[gurnben]

@real2end & @gurnben

It's seriously a bad idea to use a Dell board. There is very little support for them, especially in the realm of BIOS updates. If this board held a Prescott Pentium 4, then I seriously doubt it will handle a Q6600 or any decent Core2Duo even. If its limited to an 800MHz FSB then it will most certainly not work with anything past an E4700.

Get me some details on the motherboard (ie: what Dell model it came out of, what CPU it has in it, even a motherboard model number) and I'll dig up info for you.

thanks! That's what I was worried about, I figured we would find someone really knowledgeable here! We will look into a the mobo specs, but most likely, we'll probably just wait and save until @real2end has enough for a Pentium g3258, a decent mobo, etc. That way, there are no worries!

[real2end]

here is the cpu what exactly do you need to know about the mother board

@real2end & @gurnben

It's seriously a bad idea to use a Dell board. There is very little support for them, especially in the realm of BIOS updates. If this board held a Prescott Pentium 4, then I seriously doubt it will handle a Q6600 or any decent Core2Duo even. If its limited to an 800MHz FSB then it will most certainly not work with anything past an E4700.

 

Get me some details on the motherboard (ie: what Dell model it came out of, what CPU it has in it, even a motherboard model number) and I'll dig up info for you.

[ApolloX75]

here is the cpu what exactly do you need to know about the mother board

That's a P4 521. 800MHz FSB. Guessing that setup is out of a... Optiplex GX520 or 620? Am I close?

That board won't run a Q6600. It predates them by about two years. Even if you could find a BIOS update to increase CPU compatibility the best you could probably get is maybe Pentium D's or possibly E4700s.

Not worth it.

[Jumper118]

here is the cpu what exactly do you need to know about the mother board

 

the mainbaord tab in cpuz will tell you what the board make, model, chipset and bios revsion. you should then be able to find out which cpu's are compatible from searching on google and dells website