10 year old Hackintosh - processor upgrade

[dpwright]

Afternoon lovely people - quick advice if you can!

I have a ten year old Hackintosh that is utterly rock solid. Upgrades with no issues, has never let me down. I have other builds for family which have wobbled and been problematic, but this one is a gem. Literally never an issue.

The processor is quite old now - it is a quad core Ivy Bridge i5 on a Gigabyte Z77-DS3H board. The answer to this is probably no, but I have a pare hexacore 8th gen i5 processor - can they straight swap in and out, or will that not work?

Best
dpwright

 

[trs96]

The answer to this is probably no,

Correct, an 8th gen i5 can't possibly be used in your older hackintosh.
Why not upgrade to the i7-3770 ? Buy used on Ebay at reasonable prices. The 3570K can be resold too.

 

[Yomiro]

Mine too. Rock solid. But it's time for an upgrade.
I have been looking at Z390 boards, but they are as expensive as Z490 boards.

 

[chace90]

FYI I just did a similar upgrade. Went from an i5 2500k to an i7 3770 (non-k). Dropped right in and recognized immediately, didn't have to do any updating. Though I did just update to Catalina from High Sierra.