HP 8300 Elite SFF - CPU Upgrade to i7 3770K

[dev5150]

Hi Guys.

My Question is does this motherboard can handle the i7 3770K?

I'm on BIOS 2.05 I think if I remember (I'm at work).

Any comments?

I'm looking at this http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03612798 and the highest one is the i7 3770

Thanks!

[DGroves · Accepted solution]

yes the i7 3770 will work, but you might want to consider the "s" model which is a low power model (draws less watts)

i7 3770s

https://ark.intel.com/products/65524/Intel-Core-i7-3770S-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-compaq-elite-8300-small-form-factor-pc/5232852

before you try the cpu i strongly recomend you update the bios as your bios is a early release

and later bios updates may contain cpu microde fix's/ cpu models

to do the update

you must install this first....... 02.99 Rev.A oct 19 2015 (sp73099)   before updating to bios 00.03..06  

Fix and enhancements:

- Customers MUST flash this BIOS first, before flashing to the v03.xx versions.
- Added enhancement to allow for flashing forward to v03.xx.
- This is the same version as v02.98.

current bios: 00.03.06 Rev.A  released feb 22 2018  (sp85516)

NOTE: Due to security changes, after loading this BIOS, older versions cannot be installed.

Fix and enhancements:

- Provides the latest Intel Microcode versions 0x1F for Ivy Bridge processors and 0x2D for Sandy Bridge processors.
- Adds a new BIOS Setup policy to allow the Power On Password prompt when Wake On LAN is enabled. NOTE: This new setting will be enable by default, and will prompt for Power On Password during a Wake on LAN event.

[dev5150]

@DGroves

Your response is on point, my respects.

So no 3770K support? Will find the bioses, another question: Does HP only support Windows for flashing the bios?

I have windows 10 so that would not be an issue, but I don't used since linux is my main os.

[DGroves]

hp usually supports DOS based flashing extract the bios package and look if you see a DOS folder then create a bootable usb key and place the dos files on it

some bios's also have bios update option, if so again place the DOS files on a usb stick ,

place it in the usb 2.0 port (not usb 3.0)  and power on, enter bios, select bios update and point to usb key

[dev5150]

I uncompressed the .exe file and see they have the tools and documentation too. Thanks

One last thing: i7 3770K? Will work?

[DGroves]

will it work? yes, will it over clock?...

common, how many OEM do you know of that allow users to fiddle with system settings that will result in more support/service calls?

and for busnieness systems? right "IT" people like me just don't have sufficant things to do

which is why we want to also support users that crash systems corupt data or damage hardware

[REO51ST]

@dev5150

Core i7-3770K is the fastest consumer microprocessor for socket 1155, and it's going to remain the fastest because no more CPUs are planned for this platform.

http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/CPUs/Intel/Core_i7/i7-3770K.html

REO

[dev5150]

Hey, thanks a lot.

[dev5150]

What do you think of the i7 3770S? Does the i7 3770 performance is better by much or it's just not noticeable?

[DGroves]

i havent used either the cpu or the 8300 system, but i do know that in  SFF case something that generates less heat is highly desireable