Can I replace my stock i3 6100 with an i5 6600k?

[Reddington90]

Hello everyone,

Currently I have a HP Prodesk 600 g2 sff with an core i3 6100 cpu @ 3,70GHz, can I replace that one with an i5 6600k?

The motherboard supports 1151 lga socket so physically it fits, but will it work? When I read out my motherboard with CPU-Z it says I have a HP Model 805D KBC Version 05.26, chipset skylake 07 and southbridge IDA147.

I tried googling for the motherboard to find out if it will be compatible but I can't find anything on the motherboard itself, so hopefully some one here will have an answer!

Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance.

[GPU-2 · Accepted solution]

HI.

The processors compatible with your motherboard are these:

Intel Core i7-6700 processor
Intel Core i5-6600 processor
Intel Core i5-6500 processor
Intel Core i3-6320 processor
Intel Core i3-6300 processor
Intel Core i3-6100 processor
Intel Pentium G4520 processor
Intel Pentium G4500 processor
Intel Pentium G4400 processor
Intel Celeron G3920 processor
Intel Celeron G3900 processor

The 4.20 GHz Intel Corei7-6700K 4-core processor with 4 runs at a clock speed of 4. GHz. It has a L3 cache size of 8 MB, 1024 KB cache size is the biggest support of the motherboard.

Manual service pag 6:

http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=7633319&docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c04...

http://ark.intel.com/es-es/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz

Regards.

[Reddington90]

Hi,

First of all, thank you very much for your reply, almost just bought the i5 6600k without knowing!

I want to do a bit of casual gaming, would you recommend the Core i5-6600 or Core i7-6700? Price difference is around €90 not sure if it's worth it.

Thanks again!

[GPU-2]

Here the comparison, for games is always better to jump to an I7:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6600K/3502vs3503

Value yourself regards.:smileywink:

[Reddington90]

Okay, once again thanks for your research!