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780, Q6600 CPU, will it work?
I need a PC for certain purpose. Better on bare metal than VM. So I looked at parts I happened to have.
- Dell 3NVJ6 M/B
- 4 GB of DDR3
- 500 GB WD Black
- Corsair 500 W
- Q6600 CPU
I ordered an ATX power cable adapter, while waiting for it I started to wonder if this board will work with this CPU.
Will it? If it needs BIOS upgrade then I'm **bleep**, I have no other LGA775 CPU to flash it.
DELL-Alasdair R
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September 11th, 2018 04:00
Hi Von_Zipper,
3NVJ6 is an Optiplex 780 board (small form factor) and uses the Intel Q45 chipset. The Q6600 is compatible with the Q45 so there shouldn't be any issues. However, the Q6600 was never validated by Dell on this model so I can't say with 100% certainty, although the 780 did ship with higher rated models of CPU such as the Q8200, Q8400 and Q9650. It also shipped with lower rated CPUs such as the Celeron 4xx series.
Tesla1856
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September 10th, 2018 21:00
Not sure what motherboard that is. What Dell model did it come from?
Intel Q6600 is a Conroe Quad-core. Nice CPU. I ran a Q6600 in my XPS-410 (with 4gb ram) for many years. It was running Vista-32 and then Windows-7 64bit fine.
If it fits in that socket, it should work.
Tesla1856
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September 11th, 2018 09:00
Oh, then I would say it is NOT likely to work 100%. There is something different about that next CPU Family (FSB speed or similar).
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July 25th, 2023 08:00
Hi
I did it on Optiplex 760.
There are accepted bye Bios, and Windows 7 x64
best regard