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Asus P9X79 PRO + Xeon E5-2667 v1 - Does this combo work?

nsherin

nsherin

nsherin

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Hi,

I have an Asus P9X79 PRO motherboard and have managed to obtain an Intel Xeon E5-2667 v1. The Asus website mentions that the board supports the v2 version of this CPU. Does anyone know if the v1 version will work?

Many thanks!
 
I've got the non pro P9X79 board and it doesnt list v1 xeon support on mine but its been happily running an e5 2670 v1 with the latest BIOS. I'd say you'd probably be fine.
 
Thanks tribz. I'll give it a try. Is it likely to cause any damage to the board? It came with an i7 3820 from eBay, but the extra cores of the E5-2667 will be nice for virtual machine work. The Xeon came out of a retired server at work, so cost me nothing.
 
Cant see it damaging it, I think it will either boot or it wont. Just make sure your BIOS is right up to date if you can.
 
That's great. Thanks!

Do you know if the Intel BXTS13A cooler would be any good for this CPU? I originally bought it for the Core i7 3820 that the board came with, but the cooler is due to arrive Monday. I won't be doing any overclocking. If so, is there a decent cooler for about £20ish you'd recommend.
 
Micro code will be different since the V1 is 6c/12t and the V2 is 8c/16t. You can always drop it in and give it a go. :)
 
nsherin said:
That's great. Thanks!

Do you know if the Intel BXTS13A cooler would be any good for this CPU? I originally bought it for the Core i7 3820 that the board came with, but the cooler is due to arrive Monday. I won't be doing any overclocking. If so, is there a decent cooler for about £20ish you'd recommend.
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Its within the thermal threshold for it so should be fine as long as your not overclocking. Post back letting us know if it works or not.
 
It might work but you'll lose all Xeon exclusive features and won't be able to overclock, you'd be better off using a proper server motherboard or else try to pick up an i7 3930k or a Xeon E5 1650 (they at least overclock).
 
Hi all,
Good news - the E5-2667 worked absolutely fine out of the box - the board arrived with the 1104 BIOS. All of my 8GB DDR3 DIMMS were detected too without issue.

After finding the Arctic Freezer 33 Plus being too fiddly to install, I initially used an BXTS13A cooler that I bought for the i7 3820 that came with the board. Oddly, it was idling at 55C on the first evening I got the machine up and running. By the second evening, it was running at around 42C - much better. However, I really wanted a proper Xeon cooler, so have now installed a SuperMicro SNK-P0050AP4 cooler. Temps are the same as the Intel cooler.

I initially had issues with the graphics card driver crashing under Windows 10 - it's an AMD R9 380-based card. Last night, I flashed the board using the BIOS Converter and then flashed to the 4107 BIOS. Cleaned out the AMD drivers and reinstalled version 18.51. So far, all is good and the system feels smoother and more stable after the BIOS update.
 
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