Can I Replace My E5300 With A E8500?

I know it is an old piece of junk, but it does pretty much what I want, but is slloooww.

It is a HP S5500 with a E5300 processor. I see a E8500 on line for $10. It is the same socket.
What will happen if I replace my processor?

Supposedly it is 33% faster that would be a good deal for $10.

W10H, 4gb memory.

 

Is it running a SSD drive?
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No, it is not an SSD. I have an SSD I am not using, if it matters. I bought a new computer to replace the HP and put a SSD in it, but the power supply failed and was too expensive to replace (darned Lenovo!) so I have the SSD from it. Never bothered to put it in this one and I considered it temporary. But if I could upgrade the CPU....

The motherboard link shows that both CPUs fit it. How is it not supported?

25 years ago I was a programmer and built my own computers, but it has gotten way too complicated now.

 

Being ignorant myself, I don't know what information is required. Sorry.

So, will it work with a straight replacement? Will I need to change bios settings or anything

 

If you wish to improve the speed of your pc.
You could clone the present OS onto the SSD and things would seem quicker.
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Or jumpers. I vaguely remember that jumpers had to be changed if the processor frequency changed.

 

We need a Speccy report.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/speccy.html

 

Darned Lenovo.... they use a proprietary PSU that costs $125; while a normal one would cost $20.

The Speccy is attached.

 

I don't remember; maybe H50? It failed 54 weeks after I bought it (2 weeks out of warranty). I paid $250 for it, and the replacement PSU would was $125, so I tossed it.

My credit card doubles the warranty. They decided it wasn't cost effective to fix, so they refunded my money!

 

So, are you looking to upgrade the HP or the Lenovo?

The HP will accept the Wolfdale CPU you asked about.

Latest BIOS:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/driver...lion-slimline-s5500-desktop-pc-series/4162194

 

Upgrade the HP. The Lenovo is disposed of.
Do I actually NEED the BIOS update? Years ago IT bricked my computer doing a bios update and I have been leery of them ever since.

 

If you have never updated it, you may find that it won't boot after the CPU upgrade. Then you would have to reinstall the old one, update, and then install the new one. Or, it may just work as I don't see a specific update for CPU support. There is a newer version on the update list which specifies fixing an issue with running 2GB RAM in each slot (triple channel) if you choose to have three sticks.