45nm Processor in Gigabyte 965P-DS4

JeremyW · 30 Jan 2009 at 17:47

I've got a Gigabyte 965P-DS4 with an E6400 in it running at 3.2GHz (400MHz FSB). Following the latest 45nm Quad core price drops I'm quite tempted to get one.

Will it work in my Motherboard?

Gigabyte claim Quad core support for the motherboard on the BIOS notes section of their website but don't say which CPU's.

Has anyone got a Q9?00 running in a Gigabyte 965P-DS4?

Oops forget the most important fact - I have the Revision 1.0 board

Happy · 30 Jan 2009 at 17:53

No they aren't supported only the Q6xxx series. But I'm only about 90%... so don't hold me to that.

JeremyW · 30 Jan 2009 at 18:08

It is very difficult to get definitive info on this. I guess they want to sell me an X48 based board rather than let me use my existing one which I know runs 24x7 at a much higher FSB than the 45nm Quads.

RJC · 30 Jan 2009 at 18:10

Only support for the Q6600, REV 3.3 supports the q9xxx unofficialy.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2288

IAmATeaf · 30 Jan 2009 at 22:21

RJC said:
Only support for the Q6600, REV 3.3 supports the q9xxx unofficialy.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2288

And even then your results may and will vary.

JeremyW · 31 Jan 2009 at 00:18

I'd be happy with unofficial support especially as I am running a so called "beta bios F11f"

But I'll be mightily pi??ed off if I spend 200GBP for a chunk of silicon that acts like sand in my Motherboard...

IAmATeaf · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:33

JeremyW said:
I'd be happy with unofficial support especially as I am running a so called "beta bios F11f"

But I'll be mightily pi??ed off if I spend 200GBP for a chunk of silicon that acts like sand in my Motherboard...

Your sig says Rev1 so personally I'd not take the risk.

JeremyW · 20 Mar 2009 at 21:58

Sorry for resurrecting a long dead thread but to complete the story, I contacted Gigabyte, who were less than helpful and said "It don't matter that your chipset has run the last 2yrs at 400MHz FSB, the latest 45nm Quad cores aren't compatible" so I bought a Q6700 for GBP150 and am stress testing it now.

The alternative was to buy a whole new i7 CPU/MB/RAM bundle for GBP500+ but at this point in time I don't think that would give me 3x the speed improvement....

Snapshot · 21 Mar 2009 at 07:07

I believe it's a power supply problem rather than anything to do with the FSB. The core voltage requirements of the 45nm CPUs are different from that of the 65nm and few boards based on the the 965 chipset can supply it.