The motherboard is listed as Odense2-K on HP website. They do not list the i3 6100 as a supported CPU only i3 7100, i5 7400, and i7 7700. The chipset is H170 and supports the i3 6100. I want to switch because my plex server has the i3 6100 in it and I think there would be a benifit to upgrading it to the i5 7400 but would still like the HP that I move it from to still be functional. Should this work? Wil the upgrade to the plex server be worth the trouble? Thanks
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swap i5 7400 to i3 6100 HP OEM motherboard?
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Does your Plex server get bogged down while transcoding? Do you have hardware encoding available already? On a pure CPU transcode, the i5 will be better than the i3. I would think the HD 630 would be better than the HD 530 for transcoding.
I feel like the CPU should work in the HP motherboard, but OEM support for CPUs usually comes down to the bios support even if everything else should work fine.
I feel like the CPU should work in the HP motherboard, but OEM support for CPUs usually comes down to the bios support even if everything else should work fine.
I was worried about the bios. Probably only way to find out is to see what happens and can always switch back. Just a lot of messing around if it turns out not too. I think the i5 7400 had better H.265 quicksync support than the i3 6100 also that was making the upgrade look worth while.