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Removing E6300 & Installing E7200... few questions.

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So I finally took the plunge and splurge for a new E7200 but after reading a few forums on how to remove and install, I found something that has me torn now and I wanted to see what the Gurus here have to say about it

When you upgrade your CPU, the CPU may not provide as much performance improvements as you expect because of bottleneck in your CPU. Your PC was designed around the original CPU. When you upgrade the CPU, you may have a faster processor, but you still have all the remaining equipment, which was designed to work with the original slower CPU. In other words, even though the upgrade processor data faster than the original CPU in your PC, the upgrade processor is slowed down by the speed of your other components, which do not operate at the same speed as you new CPU.

Does this mean is a wate of your money to upgrade your CPU? No, because a faster CPU results in faster performance. But just keep in mind that the new CPU is still working through a bottleneck... your older system
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OK, he is a little repetitive, redundant and contradicts himself here but I don't like some of the things he is saying.

I have a Dual Boot now and I would hate to have to reformat my drive and do a fresh install just to make everything equal with the new CPU, are there work-arounds for this? Is what he saying antiquated and no longer true with newer boxes?

Ultra Aluminus Case
Evga 680i SLI board
Thermaltake 600W PSU
E6300 @1.86Ghz w/Artic Pro 7 HS
OCZ 4GB 1066mhz RAM
Samsung 7200.10 750GB HDD
Antec (2) 120mm LED Lights

Thanks
 
A new cpu will not require a new os install, just your bios will need to re-saved when you boot up for the first time.
 
He's not talking about the operating system, he's talking about pairing a new CPU with older components. For example, if you were using a PC with a 7800GT video card and 1GB of RAM and stuck in a Q9650, then your performance in a lot of things will be limited by your memory and your video card. However, since the rest of your system's components are fairly up to date, you won't be bottlenecking your CPU at all.

Also, there's no need to reinstall your OS. This is a simple drop-in upgrade, so just stick in the new CPU, plug everything in, turn it on, and everything will work just the same as it normally does.
 
Thanks guys, I went ahead and did the switch-a-roo, bios found the changes right away, XP did not give me any problems what so ever and listed the new CPU ok, Vista though, went ahead and re install drivers for everything that I had disconnected from the pc, it took a while but no errors so far.

I'll test the new CPU with my games to see if any performances were obtain by it. I know that my Case is not that good so I'll be looking to change that next... the quest for a PC case is now on! :d
 
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