Asus X79 Sabertooth Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard: Question

[Vidar]

Asking for a friend who has this board with a sandybridge processor... not sure of the chip...

Would he be able to upgrade from a sandybridge processor to a haswell-e while keeping the same board and RAM etc? Say the 5820k?

Would it even be worth doing?

I mean they are the same socket type, sorry if this is a dumb question...

 

[Idleman]

No. The 5820K requires an X99 board and DDR4 ram. A completely different socket.

 

[Divine Pain]

haswell e is the new 2011 v3 socket standard, you need a board with a compatible said socket and it also requires ddr4 ram support which isn't supported by that board. So fraid not