Will this PC from 2011 work? AMD Athlon II + 32GB + Windows 7! HP Pro 3305 Series Recovery Process

[@elu9780]

I have an old PC that initially had AMD Athlon 64 x2. I upgraded it to Phenom II X4 960T, went from 4GB of DDR2 to 16GB of DDR2. Not a very powerful machine by today's standards, but still usable.

[@Bad_aim-9k]

where did you buy the 16gb of ddr2 ram ? i have 6 and 16 is max for my motherboard 🙂

[@elu9780]

@@Bad_aim-9k aliexpress likely has it. 4GB DDR2 sticks, and I think they're only compatible with AMD, not Intel.

[@Bad_aim-9k]

@elu9780 alr dw i have amd phenom ii x4 945 should work

[@daviedlopulalan9882]

This is the era when you could unlock X2 and X3 Phenom into quadcore with certain type/brand of mainboard. I had an X3 720 that ran perfectly fine at X4 with default clockspeed. Slightly overclocked in X4 mode would gave BSOD.

[@laurencejohnson4106]

That's a good find!👍👍 After a good clean and new thermal paste it would make a fine Linux computer, I'm not a gamer, but I know that there are many free games in the Linux Mint repository, that PC., would probably work well with 8 GB., of ram., (four two GB sticks) if an SSD., was installed. Because you have the original HP., Windows 7 image on that HD., perhaps it would be useful to upload it to the internet archive.

[@cageliner]

My wee Lenovo M90n has soldered 4GB DDR4, but the other five all have DDR3. The Lenovo M92P has 24GB and can handle 32GB but the Dell only allows 8GB (2x4.) My laptops use DDR3, Lenovo with 2x8GB DIMMs and the Dell brings up the rear again with soldered 8GB. The ASUS actually has more RAM than it supports 😁4 slots x 8GB but two slots have 16s, so 48GB. The BIOS and Windows can only see 32. The processor is likely good for keeping. I replaced the ASUS' perfectly good 5th Gen Core i5 with a ten year old XEON E3 1281 V3 lol. 8 threads instead of four, and for $47 CAD (£26), why not? Sorry to write a short story as a comment again. 🤭

[@christiangomez2496]

I own a slightly older model from mid to late 2010 with similar specs. Uses the same faceplate as the Vista-era models with Windows 7 stickers though.

[@justinbrown691]

Oh wow, I didn't expect to get nostalgic about Windows 7. It doesn't seem that long ago. I loved 7 but both it and XP were both just so messy to support at EOL. Windows 10 for all its faults doesn't seem to have aged as poorly as previous versions as far as support goes. I remember toward the end of Win 7 we had a rash of computers would have their windows\temp folder fill until the PC wouldn't work anymore. Weird failed updates constantly and no easy reset the OS option. 7 was a held together by bubblegum and zip ties at the end.

[@Warbob11]

Good Windows XP 32 Bit gaming pc there or a Windows 7 gaming pc setup. Just select your choice of GPU & off to the races.

[@SilverX95]

drivers will be a problem for XP cause XP needs AHCI drivers for most newer stuff as XP out of the box dose not have full AHCI support unlike windows 7.

[@Warbob11]

@@SilverX95 True, you may have to use a driver installer like SnappyDriver or if HP kept some drivers up.

[@danthompsett2894]

yep that era AMD system FM1, FM2, AM2-AM3+ would typically have DDR2 or DDR3, your lucky it was win7 64bit, as 32bit op systems have a 3.5/4gb limit.

[@Hadisabetghadam]

Can Supports AMD Phenom II X4 910? X4 910 Is 10% Slower Then Q6600(Phenom 2 x4 Has 1776 Scores)

[@nfshp2mwgaming]

then ram 2gb 1x2gb now upgrade ram 4x8gb 32gb ddr3

[@axescar]

This PC can handle x6 cpu. Memory at least 16GB but I think you can rich even 32gb. With decrete GPU - windows 10, or even 11 with some tweaks.

[@SirReptitious]

The amount of ram your computer can use has nothing to do with what kind of ram you have(DDR1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) and everything to do with what kind of CPU and OS you have. If you have a 32bit CPU and 32bit OS you can only use 3.5GB in windows. But if you have a 64bit CPU and OS you can use up to 16TB of ram, which of course no motherboards exist yet that support that much ram. I think 2TB is the current maximum being supported on motherboards, and that is only on server boards.

[@SenpaiBoyRock]

Can in upgraded windows 8.1?

[@joshwa1234]

@@SenpaiBoyRock yes it should be possible :)

[@Revivify]

The PC is personal again. Now give us all your data so we can fix that lol

[@joshwa1234]

@@Revivify I thought it might help me personalise it! The wallpaper looks nice though.