Asus P5N-E SLI - question

TriedandTested · 27 Aug 2007 at 22:59

That's my BIOS version.

Question is, what is the best processor this mobo will support?

TriedandTested · 27 Aug 2007 at 23:04

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5N-E SLI

Well, my BIOS is massively out of date, oops, but from that it seems it can support up to the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 if i'm reading it correctly. Am i?!

WJA96 · 28 Aug 2007 at 06:20

Yes. It will run any current Intel CPU. What it may not do (without a BIOS update) is correctly assign a speed or voltage to it. Luckily, all Intel CPUs will run in C1E mode with a massively reduced voltage requirement, so pretty much everything boots up fine, but you may get errors saying things like 'MicroCode Unidentified' and somesuch. Best just to update the BIOS and then all will be well.

TriedandTested · 28 Aug 2007 at 09:13

WJA96 said:
Yes. It will run any current Intel CPU. What it may not do (without a BIOS update) is correctly assign a speed or voltage to it. Luckily, all Intel CPUs will run in C1E mode with a massively reduced voltage requirement, so pretty much everything boots up fine, but you may get errors saying things like 'MicroCode Unidentified' and somesuch. Best just to update the BIOS and then all will be well.

Excellent, thanks for the reply. Time to upgrade i feel.