Dell Optiplex CPU Upgrade

[emerald_piggy]

I have a dell optiplex 380 that has a core 2 duo E6550 and I was wondering if I could upgrade that to something like a Q9400. I know which CPU's are compatible with the system I'm just wondering if the built in PSU will be a problem. The Optiplex is SFF and will be running 8gb RAM a GT 1030 and one hard drive and the CPU. The power supply is only 235W. Can somebody tell me if this will run in to problems?

[Electronics Wizardy]

here is the cpu support list for core 2 quads.

 

Q8400

Q9400

Q9505

Q9550

Q9650

 

psu will be fine.

[dalekphalm]

21 minutes ago, emerald_piggy said:

I have a dell optiplex 380 that has a core 2 duo E6550 and I was wondering if I could upgrade that to something like a Q9400. I know which CPU's are compatible with the system I'm just wondering if the built in PSU will be a problem. The Optiplex is SFF and will be running 8gb RAM a GT 1030 and one hard drive and the CPU. The power supply is only 235W. Can somebody tell me if this will run in to problems?

235W PSU will be no problem at all. The entire system probably doesn't pull more than 150W-175W anyway.

[Fire Lantern]

I know this isn't your original intent of the post but you might consider modding the Socket (not hard) and getting an e5450 Xeon as they go for a few bucks usually and are basically top of the line CPUs you can get on 775 sockets.

[emerald_piggy]

On 6/22/2018 at 6:55 PM, Fire Lantern said:

now this isn't your original intent of the post but you might consider modding the Socket (not hard) and getting an e5450 Xeon as they go for a few bucks usually and are basically top of the line CPUs you can

I'm not interested in modding anything but thanks