Can I swap CPU like this?

yup correct, just make sure that it supports he intel quad that you are planning to get.

Ill get the list for you.

EDIT:Yah it basically supports every intel C2Q out there.
 
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mx344 said:
yup correct, just make sure that it supports he intel quad that you are planning to get.

Ill get the list for you.

EDIT:Yah it basically supports every intel C2Q out there.
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I like the Q9400 ( and a few more as far as that goes ) but I haven't even had the E5200 very long...Wish I had went bigger but water under the bridge now...I put this together a couple of months ago myself with 4 gigs of DDR2 800 and it does good,just a little slow making home movies...I would like to try my hand at OC but never tried...I know I have to be very careful...Any thoughts...
 
One thing you will want to do to head off potential is to update the BIOS to be absolutely sure it will support a newer CPU.
 
RunAway said:
I like the Q9400 ( and a few more as far as that goes ) but I haven't even had the E5200 very long...Wish I had went bigger but water under the bridge now...I put this together a couple of months ago myself with 4 gigs of DDR2 800 and it does good,just a little slow making home movies...I would like to try my hand at OC but never tried...I know I have to be very careful...Any thoughts...
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I would try to overclock that baby, man.
The e5200 is one of the best budget overclokers, you can get that thing up to 4.0ghz with some good air cooling, and 4.2+ with water.

But really if you want to get a preformance increase w/o any risk(or very little) Just easily bump up that FSB, untell you reach t he point which it becomes unstable. You should be able to get 3.0ghz w/o any voltage changes.
 
mx344 said:
I would try to overclock that baby, man.
The e5200 is one of the best budget overclokers, you can get that thing up to 4.0ghz with some good air cooling, and 4.2+ with water.

But really if you want to get a preformance increase w/o any risk(or very little) Just easily bump up that FSB, untell you reach t he point which it becomes unstable. You should be able to get 3.0ghz w/o any voltage changes.
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Ok,doing lots of reading on it right now..Have been for the last couple of hours...Never OCed B-4 so I am learning as I go..And you can bet I'm gonna go slow....Don't want to mess this up...And how will I know its unstable?
 
Well for one, if it will even boot up windows, or even display an image on the screen, thats when you do the jumpers.(srry i may be freakin you out.)

But all you need to do is just up the FSB by 1-2 incriments eachtime, so you will be safe. And eachtime, run prime95 or orthos to test for stability.

But like i said, you should be able to get to 3.0 with good stability.:)

Yes, that is good, go slow, thats the way to do it.:)
 
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One thing you will want to do to head off potential is to update the BIOS to be absolutely sure it will support a newer CPU.
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I don't often disagree with Lawson but I do here. I don't recommend unnecessary BIOS flashes to beginners. There is some risk involved. Swap the CPU and then, if it does NOT work properly, then you can flash the BIOS. Most likely it won't be necessary so doing it just adds risk with no reward. Make sure it is necessary first.
 
I did it!!! Man what a deal!! Just about give up on the whole OCing thing,but finally got it...Was up till 5 am this morning working on it..First of all I didn't know much bout any of the bios settings apart from setting boot order and simple stuff but got to reading and here I went..Well I read ALL of the OC 101 on the forum plus all kinds of other sites as well before I even went into the bios..I got 4 computers on-line in my house and actually 2 are just alike,which happend to be the ones I wanted to try my hand on...Well i downloaded all kinds of apps and tools ( all the main OCing tools ) and started getting familiar with them and realized neither of the computers were even doing what they were rated to do..One was overclocked 33% and the other was suppose to be at 2.5 but was running at 2.4..Is it common to not be right straight from the box? I assume it is,guess I should have set everything when I built them..I built two exact same systems except 2 gig of ram in one and 4 in the other( XP on one and 32 bit Vista on the 4 gig )...Anyway, I changed the FSB and corrected the OCed one but could not change the other one,which happened to be the one with 4 gigs of ram...Don't know what the difference was in the two besides the ram ( even though they both have Kingston ) I fooled with it and fooled with it,reset voltage till I was sick of it,changed everything I could think of at a slow pace and safe of course,read and read and read and searched till I had no choice but to flash and that took care of it...Now I have the E5200 running at 3.0 with low voltage at 1.2 with the highest temp running Prime95 at 58c....
And as an extra note,both mobo was running the same bios version...Not anymore..Like someone said in the earlier post,don't want to fix it if it isn't broken..Now one has the newest version but the other one is doing just fine with the old one...And Im lucky these mobo have a revert back to default feature when they will not post..Other wise I would be spending a lot of time with the jumper...
 
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congrats man, doesnt it feel good :), umm how long did you test the prime95 for? cause 58c is kinda on the hot side, what is you idle temp?
 
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congrats man, doesnt it feel good :), umm how long did you test the prime95 for? cause 58c is kinda on the hot side, what is you idle temp?
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yup feels good!!! Long time on the Prime95 ; several tests anywhere from 10 min to 20 min..Well thats not a long time but it should be enough to give me an idea for what I will be doing....33,34 on idle...
 
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But keep in mind thats a stock cooler....Im sure I could crank that baby up with a fine Zalman or something...Might can even go a little lower on the juice..What you think?
 
ok, well that is a good idle temp, yah i figured it was stock cooling.

I would keep it at where it is right now, cause 10 minutes at 100% load is a lot of use, you will never have your 100% usage of you cpu , unless you are doing a test like this,i think you are fine, that is about the same time i did mine for, i think i did mine for 15 minutes, and it went to 60c, so i mean, after a while it stays the same temp, i think your good, but i would recommend you gettin an after market cooler, or if you don't want to spend the money atleast get some new thermal compound, if you get some artic5 it could lower you temp by 6c, which then it would put you in the zone you would like to be.And thats like 5 bucks.

If you are going to get an after market cooler look into this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233003
 
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ok, well that is a good idle temp, yah i figured it was stock cooling.

I would keep it at where it is right now, cause 10 minutes at 100% load is a lot of use, you will never have your 100% usage of you cpu , unless you are doing a test like this,i think you are fine, that is about the same time i did mine for, i think i did mine for 15 minutes, and it went to 60c, so i mean, after a while it stays the same temp, i think your good, but i would recommend you gettin an after market cooler, or if you don't want to spend the money atleast get some new thermal compound, if you get some artic5 it could lower you temp by 6c, which then it would put you in the zone you would like to be.And thats like 5 bucks.

If you are going to get an after market cooler look into this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233003
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Yea I really like that cooler,but worried about space in my case with any cooler of size..Here is my case..What do you think? I think I might have to remove that air duct...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811121001
 
OUCH!, that is going to be a tight fit.
I would go for a different style cooler, seeing that even with the air vent taken out, it will still be really close.
I would go for something like this then.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835101011

But i would still take off the air vent attachment, so it will have some room to fit. This one is about 4.5inches, compared to the other ones 6, and this also preforms very nicely.
 
mx344 said:
OUCH!, that is going to be a tight fit.
I would go for a different style cooler, seeing that even with the air vent taken out, it will still be really close.
I would go for something like this then.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835101011

But i would still take off the air vent attachment, so it will have some room to fit. This one is about 4.5inches, compared to the other ones 6, and this also preforms very nicely.
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Actually for the pentium dual cores this here is an amazing cooler, its pretty quiet and has some exellent temps, i know someone who has an e2180@3Ghz, load temps of ~43c with this cooler:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835150082
 
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