I have a touch screen inspirion one from dell with an amd athlon II x4 2.4 ghz 610e. I am wanting to upgrade performance a little bit. is this processor "AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 6-Core 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Socket AM3 125W HDE00ZFBGRBOX Desktop Processor" easily compatible with my old one?
i know i will need a bigger power supply which i have already. I'm a mechanic on cars, not pc. so if sound ignorant, its because i am

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I have a touch screen inspirion one from dell with an amd athlon II x4 2.4 ghz 610e.  I am wanting to upgrade performance a little bit.  is this processor   "AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 6-Core 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Socket AM3 125W HDE00ZFBGRBOX Desktop Processor" easily compatible with my old one?
 i know i will need a bigger power supply which i have already.  I'm a mechanic on cars, not pc.  so if sound ignorant, its because i am

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What I did was I went to the website of my motherboard manufacturer. They had an exhaustive list of CPUs compatible with my motherboard. I think it also said how much power it takes, but most of the power is taken by the graphics card, you have to add them up to figure out how big a supply you need.

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