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May 16th, 2016 06:00
OPTIPLEX 960 Upgrade journey
Hi,
I got myself a new PC for work and I did not want to spend much, so I got one from the previous decade!
But now I realized that the speed is frustrating me. I have upgraded the ram and the hard and the graphic card withe magic of second hand shopping. But the processor is still a slug.
I tried figuring out what processor is compatible to Optiplex 960 motherboard, but I did not really understand how to find out.
Can somebody please let me know what is the maximum possible processor that I can hook up to this old fella?
The current speed is 3.0Ghz, and I think its not dual or quad.
Thank you
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May 18th, 2016 09:00
CORE2 DUO is the lowest they came with. Single core went out the window in 2004 Vista is 2007 and WIN7 is 2009
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/desktop-optiplex-960-technical-guidebook-en.pdf
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