will an asus p5n-e sli support a new quad

[Bolerus]

hi

I have a had a look around but cant find a definate answer.

does anybody know if an asus p5n-e will support an Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

I know it would the older quads, but they have changed now havent they?


thanks

 

[Bolerus]

just had a look on asus website, although there is no cpu list, it does state that it supports 45nm quads.

So I does that mean I can put any quad on straight from the box?

P5N-E SLI

The MB Supporting Intel® Quad-Core with NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI
- Support Intel® next generation 45nm Multi-core CPU
- Intel® Quad-Core
- Dual-channel DDR2 800/667/533
- Great performance and overclocking
- ASUS O.C. Profile
- ASUS Fanless Design
- 2 IEEE 1394a connector onboard (1 in back + 1 on board)
- 5 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (including 1 x SATA On-the-Go)
- ASUS Q-Connector

Oh iwish we could go back to the good old days when it was easy to see which processor you need lol

thanks for the response btw

 

[Bolerus]

thanks for the info...decisions decisions.

 

[Bolerus]

hope im not going to look too much of a noob here but...

if i get a quad and put it on the board, but the bios is too old can it damage the cpu?

the reason i ask, is the machine doesent have a floppy drive (has a multi card reader instead) so updating the bios is going to be a real beatch

on the other hand, I dont really want to buy a new board, because I bought an asrock 4core board from MM a couple of weeks ago, to put my current cpu on (E6400) when I moved to quad core. With the idea of building a bridge pc for my other half (she has a decent g.card but AGP and ddr1 memmory so thougt asrock woudl be ideal)

PS im not really too bothered with overclocking, the board has a built in (upto) 20% safe clocking function, and I have never gone beyond that on the 6400 and in fact it is at stock now (largly cos im a coward and dont want to rick frying anything)

 

[Bolerus]

sory to keep harping on, on this

but what would be the advantage of going for a q9300 rather than the q6600

the q9300 is 2.5 ghz where as the q6600 is 2.4ghz, but is £60 cheaper (if i go for the this week only Q6600) both are 1333fsb (im assuming that is the oc on the q6600 to get it to 3gig) or 1024 for the non OC guranteed version

i know the obvios answer is later compatibility, but in all honesty I dont think that is a valid issue with how often the cpus change

 

[Bolerus]

You can buy a cheap USB Flash Disk and flash the bios with that but with the new 650i

flash disk? do you mean a usb flash drive dongle (got a 1 gig (i know 1 gig is tiny these days) I coudl use if that is what you mean) but how do you get pc to start up to read that? isnt the point of the floppy drives with bios flash so that they start up from floppy

my god i am really out of touch with modern technology, I used to thik I was pretty much on the edge of progress (before dual core and quad core stitched me)

 

[Bolerus]

ok, thanks wiggins. I will check the bios when i get home and see if i can find whihc bios version i have.

wish me luck lol

 

[Bolerus]

my bios says revision 608 so that is good news because the q6600 was my target, freeing up thej E6400 to go on the asrock board.

now, and here comes more silly question, people have reported that the board isnt good for overclocking quads, I was thinking of getting the this week only 6600 that is guranteed to go to 3gig, but only becasue it is cheaper than the standard q6600.

I take it, If I stick that on and leave it at stock, it will be just the same as putting in the slightly more expensive one at stock, or are they physically different chips, (one is 1024 fsb, one is 1333 fsb) the board defintaly reports 1333 support so that shouldnt be an isuue --- should it