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December 5th, 2022 07:00

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I have a Dell optiplex 3010 with an i5 3470 and a gtx 1650 im planning to upgrade the CPU to an i7 2600 will going back a generation prevent the PC from working?

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December 5th, 2022 08:00

It should work.  User validated with similar setup.

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December 5th, 2022 08:00

chino is spot on.

otoh, very little (3%) benefit from i5-3470 to i7-2600 for gaming.  do not be swayed by the notion that i7 is significantly better than i5.  both cpu bottleneck the gtx 1650.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650    
Benchmark CPU Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20GHz ($124.99)
 
CPU Impact on FPS -14.8 FPS
 
CPU Impact on FPS % -30.0%  
Benchmark Quality Settings High Quality Settings  
Average 1080p Performance 75.6 FPS
 
Average 1440p Performance 57.8 FPS
 
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650    
Benchmark CPU Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz ($149.98)
 
CPU Impact on FPS -13.1 FPS
 
CPU Impact on FPS % -20.0%  
Benchmark Quality Settings High Quality Settings  
Average 1080p Performance 78.2 FPS
 
Average 1440p Performance 59.7 FPS
 
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