Pentium dual core + mobo question

[kdd]

Will a pentium dual core E2180 2ghz work in an XFX 680I LT motherboard with no bios flash or anything needed?

Thanks

 

[Vir]

Unlike other motherboard manufacturers website it's indeed kind of hard to find the exact answer on xfx site, I tried to look it up.

Supported CPUs:
Intel Core 2 Extreme (dual and quad core), Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Celeron D, Pentium 4, Pentium 4, Pentium D 9XX, Pentium D 8XX

It will probably pick it up but I'm not 100% sure. You can try and mail xfx.

 

[Hesky82]

I seen someone run an M0 E2160 clocking at 3.2GHz with a stock cooler on that exact same board.

 

[Guardsmon]

um I might be being dumb, but why wouldn't it? Its a core 2 duo with 65nm architecture like the 680i's primarily support. I can't see why it wouldn't

 

[Vir]

um I might be being dumb, but why wouldn't it? Its a core 2 duo with 65nm architecture like the 680i's primarily support. I can't see why it wouldn't

Well you are right it is, but some motherboards need a bios update before a cpu is recognised that is newer then the board. Just the way it is sometimes.

 

[Hesky82]

Can be as little as an unrecognised CPUID for a motherboard to refuse to boot with a certain chip. When the e2xxx was released many boards didn’t read the correct L2 cache, and had other little bugs that were ironed out with an updated bios.