HP Compaq Presario SR1620NX whats the max CPU I can put in this bugger?

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:38 pm

Unless I'm missing something, that Opteron is a Socket AM2 which is won't fit.

GuardianAsher · Post by **GuardianAsher** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:38 pm

Yep, socket AM2. I don't believe they made an Opteron for 939.

Whoops, I lied. CPU world shows the Opteron 165 though 185 are dual core 939 processors.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Du ... OX%29.html

As to whether that board will support it, I seriously doubt it. The BIOS has to support Opteron boards, and if I remember correctly, very few non-server class boards did.

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:20 pm

Thanks guys, I figured as much but I wasn't sure you guys had any old tricks / mods you might have known remembered. I was able to call in a few markers and reacquire some old hardware I have passed forward to a somewhat tech savy family member and reacquired from them a Athlon 64 3500+ with a beefier HSF plus my old MSI 7900GT vid card. I think that with the ram I have coming in will help make this PC a bit snappier. Not sure what i want to do with it but i may donate it to another less fortunate person I know that is out of work and needs a PC. His old PC was a PIII eeeekkk!

GuardianAsher · Post by **GuardianAsher** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:29 am

That little system I put together played Left 4 Dead 2 relatively well. We had a mini LAN party with four of us playing, and I got stuck on it. Aside from the ancient drivers and some graphical glitches, it was playable, and I only died once

I'm fairly impressed with how well it did, with how old it was.