[CompRookie]

Hi ppl, I was wondering if the dell 0FM586 motherboard supports a dual core pentium processor or are these mobo's only designed for a quad processor? The dual core processor that I'm thinking is the E5300

[BruinBeer]

What exactly do you want to do with the system? And is there any other motherboard choice than the dell?
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[CompRookie]

I currently have a dell inspiron 530 with an intel core 2 quad Q6600 cpu. What I want to do is keep that cpu to build a new system. I was planning on buying a cheaper dual core processor (E5300) and install it on the dell motherboard but I'm not sure if that (OFM586) motherboard supports dual core processors.

[win2kpro]

Only Dell can tell you positively what processors other than the installed processor are supported by your board.

I feel sure that since the Q6600 is supported there would be support for some Core 2 Duo's, but most likely they would have to be 65nm architecture. The E5300 you are asking about is 45nm architecture and I seriously doubt that you motherboard would support that processor.