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Bonjour (Hello in French) Could someone please tell me what is the most powerfull CPU I can put in the Dell Optiplex 3011 AIO ??? Mine is a i3-3240@3.40GHz CPU model I know that there are some i5-3470S@2.9GHz models The motherbord seems to be a LGA1155 pin cpu socket : 0C1GJ7 Intel Motherboard 48.3KD03.011 model THanks for your help !
I can definitely agree with that, as CPU upgrades easily offer the lowest return on investment of any upgrade - I took a Latitude from a dual-core i5 to a quad-core i7, with benchmark performance more than 2X as high, and I barely notice it.
Those AIOs are also a lot of steps and effort to upgrade and it's very easy to break a clip or forget a connection, and other than adding in memory, you really have to take a large portion of the system apart.
SSD -> Memory -> CPU would be the order of upgrades I would undertake with an AIO.
- Bonjour (Hello in french) I follow the advices that Tesla1856 and Da_Vinman gave me some weeks ago ! Merci beaucoup à tous les deux ! (I thank you very much you both) Sorry for my very bad english I changed the 500GB HDD for a 1TB SSD I put an additional 4GB RAM memory on the free port (total 8GB instead of only 4GB) A cleaned all the sand (it was totally jamed) that was in the fan and heatsink I bought the licence and installed a Windows10 Pro 64bits (licence very cheap on amazon germany) Now, I have got a very quiet PC, and I am impressed by the result ! Everything is going much more faster than before ! I am not affraid to write that I am the owner of a brand new PC !!! Once again, thanks for your help !
I did some looking and so far, the fastest I've seen is the i5-3470S, which is about 50% faster than what you have.
Of course the big difference is going to be the 4 physical cores, which will increase overall speed and multitasking a lot more than just the pure performance jump. The only issue is if there are two different cooling solutions for dual-core vs. quad-core - the newer the systems, the more likely they are equivalent, but 3-series is right on that edge.
You might want to check that out, comparing heatsink-fans from the two different configs (use teardowns, reviews, images, Dell parts, etc.) just to make sure they are the same.
Before all "merci beaucoup" (thank you very much in French) !!!!!
So, I understand that the best to do (to avoid a waste of time), is to put a SSD instead the HDD, and probably 4GB RAM more (total of 8GB of RAM : I have actually "only" 4GB).
My aim is to format and install a clean Windows 10 instead of Windows 7 64bits.
Even for this (Windows 10), the 4 cores CPU (instead the twin cores CPU) is not so efficient ????
Once again, thanks in advance.
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Posted March 5th, 2024 11:38
@HYVERT ...just out of curiosity, are you still using your computer, if so still satisfied with speed and everything ? Here in Greece this computer is on offer for just 99 euro and I will probably buy one as a third-fourth computer.
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My best advice is to NOT try it. :Smile:
Keep your working computer the way it is. If you want some extra speed, try installing a SSD (for bootable Windows and all Apps).
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