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Athlon X2 7750 or Phenom 9950 on Optiplex 740, will it work???

14 Jan 2009 08:04AM

Hi,

I have an older Optiplex 740 System with Athlon X2 4600, bought in Dec 2006.

Can anybody tell me if my 740 supports the new X2 7750 or Phemom CPUs??? DELL Support says neither yes nor no... they couldn't tell me if there was a change of motherboards when the new Phenoms were released.

I was wondering because the Optiplex 740 is now offered on the Dell Website with the new Phenom CPUs, up to the 9600B. The new X2 7750 CPUs would also be very attractive.

Latest BIOS (2.1.8) is installed.


Hast anybody tested these combinations???

 

Thanks from Germany

Street_Rod

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Re: Athlon X2 7750 or Phenom 9950 on Optiplex 740, will it work???

11 Nov 2009 08:37AM

The 7750 is not validated on this PC.

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Re: Athlon X2 7750 or Phenom 9950 on Optiplex 740, will it work???

11 Nov 2009 08:52AM

These days I get an AMD Phenom X4 9550 and will test this CPU on my 740. This Phenom is also offered on DELLs website as an option for the Optiplex 740. I hope it works...

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Re: Athlon X2 7750 or Phenom 9950 on Optiplex 740, will it work???

18 Nov 2009 01:35AM

I figured out that there are two kind of 740 motherboards, one with 4MB NVRAM Bios, and one with 8Mb NVARM for Systems with Phenom CPUs. Unfortunately, my board only has the 4Mb BIOS. Thats why I did not test the Phenom, it will probably not work.

Who knows what maximum CPU I can use???? X2 6000, X2 6400 or maybe the X2 7750, 7850????

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