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WTB i7-2600

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looking to pick up a cheap 2600 that someone around here must have laying around collecting dust.

It's to upgrade my mom's old HP that's running a i5-2400 and that's the highest CPU it'll support, she (and for sure I !) doesn't want to get a new system since that'll involve going to Win10 - all it does is check mail and recipes.

thanks everyone !
 
Buy a NUC for $130 on Amazon and put Windows 7 on it. Intel makes a utility to slipstream the drivers onto a Win7 image or you can do it yourself manually or with another tool. It's really only an extra step or two to get Win7 working on many modern setups.
 
I think she'd miss the optical drive, but thanks for the idea

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If all it does is check mail and recipes why do you need more than a i5-2400?
 
SSD might get you better visible results for a simple use machine like that, maybe a fresh reinstall to speed it up and some more RAM

Either way, good luck and free bump for you
 
Wont support a 3770 with a bios revision? Im sitting on one :|
 
I agree- if the system does not have an SSD in it- that should make the biggest difference and she will notice it more compared to an I7 2600 upgrade.
If you still want one- not sure if you check reddit hardwareswap but there are plenty listed there.
 
bwbob said:
looking to pick up a cheap 2600 that someone around here must have laying around collecting dust.

It's to upgrade my mom's old HP that's running a i5-2400 and that's the highest CPU it'll support, she (and for sure I !) doesn't want to get a new system since that'll involve going to Win10 - all it does is check mail and recipes.

thanks everyone !
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If all she does is check mail and recipes, then she's not really using the CPU she already has. In other words, you'd be wasting an i7.
(just saying)
 
Guys, thanks for all the good ideas and yes... I admit it, after thinking about it you're all correct and it would probably be negligible. I had it to do some PM on it for a failing hard drive and was just overthinking it. I'm used to upgrading my stuff and didn't really think it through that her usage hasn't really changed since she got it years ago.

thanks for the reality check !
 
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