This post is more than 5 years old
1 Rookie
•
6 Posts
0
1437
May 23rd, 2020 08:00
optiplex 780 cpu upgrade help
right so basically i i ha seen this type of upgrade being posted all over here but i cant cant a solution to my problem in them posts.
i i ha an optiplex 780 sff running Windows 10 on bios a15 with 8gb of ram, it came to me with a e5400 processor and basically i i wanted to upgrade it because i was getting bottle necked by the cpu for gaming. i have the q9550 installed in the pc and its been recognised by the computer everything starts like its ment to untill i get to the log in screen, sometimes i can get logged in only for a short amount of time before it crashes with the blue screen and stop codes, sometimes it doesn't let me get past it. i have tried removing the ram and running it to no prevail, i have tried flashing the bios to awa 15 worked with no fix to my problem. i i ha come to a conclusion that its a windows based problem but i have no ideah to fix it, so im im asking you guys for help, any would be very much appreciated
bradthetechnut
9 Technologist
•
9.5K Posts
•
40.3K Points
0
May 27th, 2020 13:00
Nothing to be sorry about.
You're actually better off without the GT 710:
Graphic card is too weak for this processor.
Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce 100% of bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck.
It means your graphic card is actually bringing down the performance you see. It's not a good match to go with your Q9550.
A 30w card wouldn't be nearly as bad when it comes to bottleneck:
Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 (Clock speed at 100%) with NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce 15.7% of bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck.
Optiplex 780 + GT 1030 + YouTube
The GT 1030 GDDR5 is the best low watt card I could find to go with both your CPU and your PSU.
If somebody finds something even closer (low watt and less bottleneck) that's fine too.
bradthetechnut
9 Technologist
•
9.5K Posts
•
40.3K Points
0
May 26th, 2020 19:00
How many watts is your GPU card or what GPU do you have? Once you upgraded CPU's, it's possible your 235w PSU doesn't have enough power for both new CPU and GPU card.
mooip123
1 Rookie
•
6 Posts
0
May 27th, 2020 02:00
@bradthetechnut ummm im not sure sorry but it is a Nvidia geforce gt710 1gb low profile card so i wouldn't have thought it would be that much of a leach on i