Lenovo H215 (08931DU)

[FOKUSDAVE01]

Hello fellow Lenovers. I am the proud new owner of a Lenovo Desktop H215. Brother got it for me from his work, (Office Depot). He got one of there credit cards there and got a great deal on the pc. My question is I got the PC because I do mid level gaming  (World Of Warcraft) . I installed a 500w Pwr Supply in it and a Nvidia gt240 512 ddr5 (pny series). My question is down the road I may want to up the processor. I currently have a amd athlon x2 2.7 215 series and I currently have some good deals I can get on amd quad core processors thru my uncle. My question since lenovo wont release any details on the mother board is it possible to just swap out the mother board and processor or can i just swap out the processor? Im wanting to get a phenom x4 black edition in which I can get for 70 bucks at the moment. Any help would be greatly appretaited. And i dont care about the warranty on the lenovo. I spoke to someone today at lenovo and they were very nice but not helpful at all with my questions in which I wasnt surprised lol.. Appreitate the tips!

[IPnaSh Guru]

You must to get more information about your current motherboard. Can you download and run "Everest"?

[MrPeter1985 Guru]

Per THIS your chip is AM3, meaning any AM3 chip "Deneb and newer" will fit, the only issue now would be what AM3 quad chip would work with the BIOS. Since there is no BIOS posted for your new PC I would not be able to find out for you just yet. Now we may be able to if you post your MoBo info. It would be almost safe to say any of those AM3 chip listed in the link would work if you stick with the same Stepping Class which yours is C2, So I would think any AM3 C2 should work but I can not 100% confirm that for you.

[FOKUSDAVE01]

Thank you both for the informinative posts. I will get the everest program when I get home and post the specs for you. I knew there was a program that told me the details of the mother board. I had actually used everest before so this helps out alot. Thanks again and look for another post later this evening!

[FOKUSDAVE01]

i pmed you mr peter as well but here is what I got on the mother board :

Board: LENOVO Tilapia CRB
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: LENOVO D2KT21AUS 03/12/2010

any more info let me know really appretiate it!

[MrPeter1985 Guru]

OK here is a Picture of mine, We need to know the mainboards chipset, see how mine is a 785GX.

[FOKUSDAVE01]

ahh kk I see. I wasnt using CPU-Z tried everest but wouldnt work with my system for some reason. The one I sent you in PM doesnt say that either so when I get home tonight ill get cpu-z and take a snap shot and put it in here. Thanks for your help and patience.

[FOKUSDAVE01]

Chipset
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Northbridge AMD 780G rev. 00
Southbridge AMD SB700 rev. 00
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16
Memory Type DDR3
Memory Size 4096 MBytes
Channels Dual, (Unganged)
Memory Frequency 533.3 MHz (3:8)
CAS# latency (CL) 7.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 7
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 7
Cycle Time (tRAS) 20
Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 27
Command Rate (CR) 1T
Uncore Frequency 2000.0 MHz

[IPnaSh Guru]

What socket have the CPU?

[FOKUSDAVE01]

Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name AMD Athlon II X2 215
Codename Regor
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 215 Processor
Package Socket AM3 (938)
CPUID F.6.2
Extended CPUID 10.6
Brand ID 12
Core Stepping DA-C2
Technology 45 nm
Core Speed 800.0 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 4.0 x 200.0 MHz
HT Link speed 2000.0 MHz
Stock frequency 2700 MHz
Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, x86-64, AMD-V
L1 Data cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2 x 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
FID range 4.0x - 13.5x
Max VID 1.350 V
P-State FID 0xB - VID 0x10 - IDD 23 (13.5x - 1.350 V)
P-State FID 0x5 - VID 0x18 - IDD 17 (10.5x - 1.250 V)
P-State FID 0x10E - VID 0x20 - IDD 15 (7.5x - 1.150 V)
P-State FID 0x100 - VID 0x2C - IDD 8 (4.0x - 1.000 V)