Upgrading an Intel G3258 to i3/i5 - What Needs Doing?

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Hi all, I hope you can offer me some advice...

I have an existing Overclockers built machine from about 4-5 years ago that I would like to upgrade to keep it running. The machine has an ASROCK H81 Pro BTC mobo and an Intel G3258 CPU. The first upgrade I would like to do is source either a socket 1150 Intel i3 or i5 processor and fit that. So, my questions are...

1) What will happen with the BIOS when I fit the replacement CPU? Will it automatically detect it and choose the correct settings for it automatically without me needing to manually set anything?

2) What will Windows 10 do? As this is a fundamental system upgrade, will Windows 10 want to be re-authorised/re-registered?

Any help or advice regarding this upgrade that can be offered is appreciated. Thanks!
 
You need to update BIOS to at least 1.5 if you want all supported CPUs to work:
https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/h81 pro btc/#CPU
And with no additional cores i3s are completely useless update unless you would get it for the price of shipping.

Those Xeons could be available more cheaply than desktop Haswells.
There's little sense in paying usual second hand Intel prices considering speed of advance in CPUs.
Also nearly all E3 Xeons have hyper-threading, which would help to minimize background stuff's effect to games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Server_processors

Motherboard is just likely such cheapo, that not sure if its CPU VRM could handle all CPUs.
So some 65W TDP model could be sensible.


CPU change shouldn't affect Windows.
Motherboard change would do that.
 
Thanks guys for the responses and advice. I take the point about an i3 being a pointless upgrade, and I will look at an i5 as a minimum. However, as socket 1150's are a discontinued format I am struggling to find a reliable (prefreably new and boxed) source to buy from where costs aren't a bit ridiculous for older tech like this. Chancing a purchase from Ebay might be my only option for now. Again, thanks for the advice and when I get a replacement CPU, I should be good to go.
 
Just wanted to thank you again for your help. Sourced a replacement CPU, dropped it in yesterday morning and all has been well so far :)
 
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