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I was given an Hp 3000mt with a core 2 duo e8400, and I have a core 2 quad 9300, when I checked the product support it don’t mention the q9300 being supported and I can’t get another cpu since this is the only cpu left, are there any way I can make it work in the pc? Or it just won’t work?

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Depends on chipset and BIOS. You might be able to get a BIOS flash that will support the Q9300.

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The motherboard can physically use the Q9300 because it shares the same 1333MHz FSB as the E8400. However the BIOS in prebuilts like this can prevent the CPU from being used.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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On 3/17/2018 at 4:50 AM, Quochuyvn1 said:

Are there any custom bios or something that can make it work?

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Maybe, although your motherboard support page should have a list of BIOS updates you can download.

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2 hours ago, Quochuyvn1 said:

but the important thing is that the product don't have support for the q9300, which means the bios updates might not have the microcodes for the cpu itself @Crunchy Dragon

It might not list support for it, but that doesn't mean a BIOS update won't work. They're both LGA 775 CPUs, most of the time if a CPU uses the same socket, it just takes a BIOS update to use it.

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