CPU'S rarely fail?

[lawrence281]

Not long ago, was building a pc for my mum, for basic browsing etc.
Bought MSI H81M-P33 Motherboard for £33, ended up saying usb device over current bla bla, got a refund, not sure whos fault it was though.

Intel Pentium G3258 CPU (Dual Core 3.20GHz, Socket H3 LGA-1150)
Is the CPU im supposedly running on.

Now I bought the **B Grade** Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard from OC.

I've read somewhere, that a motherboard would try to save the CPU before itself usually? So I assume it was the boards fault previously..hope this one works well..if not I guess it may be the CPU fault?

 

[lawrence281]

If it was Windows saying that, that could have been the wrong Intel drivers.

Not sure what was saying that! it was on start up on a black screen, and turned the pc off after 15 seconds

 

[lawrence281]

You better hope someone has flashed that Z87 board with an updated bios. If it was untouched, it's unlikely to support the G3258 out of the box.

What...? why I dont understand why it woudn't support it

 

[lawrence281]

Because the G3258 is a haswell refresh processor. Z87 only supports haswell out of the box but can support haswell refresh/devil's canyon CPUs with a bios flash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Haswell_Refresh

You'd want a Z97 board to guarantee it would work with no messing.

Guess I should message OC to cancel my order :c

 

[lawrence281]

Could you link me to the cheapest board I could get, H97 work apparently too.

 

[lawrence281]

Nah the sniper supports g3258, it was one of the later Z87 boards.

Thanks man, thank god..I dont have to return this lol

 

[lawrence281]

Ah yes, looking at the CPU support list has the same bios requirement for all haswell and refresh CPUs.

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=4802

Just forget I even posted.

So, can you check the MSI H81M-P33 motherboard if it was suited for the cpu? Would explain why it didn't work lol

 

[lawrence281]

compatibility listed here:

https://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/support/H81M-P33.html#support-cpu

...seems to indicate that board would need the v15 bios to work with that CPU, so I'd say very likely that was the issue!

Hahaha oh god man, well I guess its not worth trying to sell this, its only worth about £30