I am trying to upgrade my processor from pentium d 820 to core 2 duo e8400 because pentium d overheats alot and not good for gaming. My mother board has 775 socket which should support e8400 but I m afraid to upgrade because the hp support centre says gct hm mobo only supports upto e4200. So should I buy e8400 or go to e4200 also I am trying to flash bios because I have 4gb ram and only 3.25 gb usable even in 64bit windows 7 so I have to change the setting in bios but the problem is the bios update is only released in vista I search all of internet for win7 bios flash but I didnt get it. Please help me
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?DetailID=727&MenuID=1&LanID=0 http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=fi&lc=fi&dlc=fi&docname=c00910113 Max CPU is Intel Core 2 DuoE6700 (B2) (65W) due supported bus speed. I don't recommend even trying E8400. Integrated graphics takes some of memory. Usually Vista driver and BIOS updates work fine on Windows 7 also.
Thanks for the reply. Does Integrated graphics mean onboard Memory? i am not bothered with it if it does because i use a g card so is it safe to buy an E8400? and i tried to update bios with Vista driver but it gives an error saying i dont meet the minimum requirement. I tried to force it to run in vista mode but it gave the same error.
Integrated graphics uses RAM. If you buy E8400, it will run lower clock speed because FSB limits. E8400 (3 GHz) will run at 9*266 = 2394 MHz on that motherboard. Of course, that is only little less than E6700 (2,66 GHz) but then it's not guaranteed it will even work. So E6700 is better choice unless you find very cheap E8400. Wrongly applied BIOS update is great way to break motherboard so I suggest you accept little less memory.
