I want to upgrade my CPU in my HP ProDesk 600 G2 Mini as the current one is a little slow with 2 cores and 2 threads. I did a little bit of research and found, that my motherboard (HP KBC Version 05.39 (8169)) supports all 6th gen intels with 35 Watt TPD. Based on this, I found the i7-6700T and the i5-6500T.
This PC works for me as a home server with Minecraft at focus, maybe some Streaming service and a cloud later
I am completely new to the hardware side of PCs and don't really know if its even worth upgrading. I think the i7 is a little expensive for me, but I just want to know if both of these would fit my motherboard. Is there anything else I have to pay attention to when choosing a CPU or upgrading it?
What do you plan to do with your system?
Sorry, forgot to state this. I am running it as a server, currently only as a minecraft server and a few small static sites, but I‘ll be running more services if I need to. Maybe a streaming service like Jellyfin, or a cloud of some kind in the future
Minecraft is very single core dependent so I'd expect maybe twice the performance going to the i7 at 3.6ghz (plus the extra cache) vs the 2.9ghz of the pentium but probably closer to 1.5x.
The i7 having more cores shouldn't have as bad of a performance penalty vs the Pentium. And in multi threaded loads the i7 will destroy it. Even when it's running at 35 watts it should be at least twice as fast.