Looking to get a E8500 on release, will my M/B and Memory support it

[Supertaff]

Hi All,

Have just seens these new chips and fancy the new E8500 as a b'day present to go to from my E6600, but wanted to check the compatibility of my kit.

If anyone can help, that would be great.

Motherboard is Gigabyte GA965P DS4 (Socket 775)
Memory is Geil 4 * 1GB PC2-6400

Cheers

Taff

 

[Supertaff]

ok, thanks for the help guys, looks like for the time being I'll have to wait for a BIOS update, though as the board does support 1333 processors there hopefully is a good chance it might work with them.

Main problem I think is the multiplier for the FSB as currently from what I can see in the BIOS it maxes at 9 and not the 9.5 required for the E8500.

Cheers

Taff

 

[Supertaff]

Cheers Hex,

Will let my wife know that's what I want for my b'day then

Will there be any problem with the memory? as it's 6400 will it be fast enough or should I upgrade that?

All I have to do then is to work out how I can get a gfx card upgrade as well. maybe a bunch of flowers and some chocs are will do the trick.



Taff

 

[Supertaff]

Looks like I have to hold off on that order until someone confirms that they've got one working with the M/B.

Could change the M/B as well, but hate having to take all of the kit out of the case and put it all back in again.

Taff