will the Gigabyte Z97P-D3 work with a G3258 cpu out of the box ?

C64 · 27 Mar 2015 at 10:56

As title going to order this board today from ocuk am worried it wont recognize the intel pentium k straight out of the box ? will I be able to at least boot in to bios to flash so it supports the cpu ?

C64 · 27 Mar 2015 at 11:16

Looks like it wont even boot with that cpu without the f5 bios on it ?

wazza300 · 27 Mar 2015 at 11:18

it should work,why not ask if they can update bios for you before shipping it out?

C64 · 27 Mar 2015 at 11:26

Intel Pentium G3258 3.20GHz 3MB 350 MHz / 1100 MHz Haswell Refresh 22nm C0 53W 100 BIOS F5

from gigabytes site hmm looks like i've dug myself a hole with the G3258 most of the z97 boards seem to require a bios update to recognize the cpu ? or will it boot up and just requires the bios update to be fully functional ?

Borealis · 27 Mar 2015 at 11:40

It may well run but needs the update to work properly. Z97 and H97 are meant to support Haswell Refresh out of the box.

Back in the Athlon XP days, I had a processor recognised as something totally different, until I updated the BIOS.

I've got the Z87-D3HP and the cpu support doesn't mention a BIOS lower than version F4. When I updated to F7 recently, I discovered I was on BIOS F2.

wazza300 · 27 Mar 2015 at 11:41

it might let you access the bios,idk until you try

if it doesn't gigabyte will flash the bios for you if you can rma the board but im 99% sure it will work

spike2011 · 27 Mar 2015 at 16:53

Stupid this still goes on wish retailers sold motherboards with the latest bios already updated even if they charge a small fee for the service.

setter · 27 Mar 2015 at 17:49

All Z97 boards should support the G3258 out of the box. It was only Z87 boards like mine that required a bios flash to enable support for this chip and the Devils canyon refresh such as the 4790k.

C64 · 30 Mar 2015 at 16:30

Yea they support it but need a bios update to overclock it.

Sorted, I was just worried wouldn't even post.

Borealis · 30 Mar 2015 at 18:35

Thanks for letting us know that it worked out of the box and only needed the BIOS update for OCing.

I've got a friend coming over this weekend with a box of parts, including a Gigabyte Z97X-SLI board and 4690K.

I've also got a Pentium-K and the same board for my own rebuild, just so we have the same mobo/BIOS. From the Gigabyte website, it looks like we'll both be in the same situatiuon as you.

C64 · 1 Apr 2015 at 22:53

I am on it now rev 1.0 board but it came with the F5 bios already on it.
g2358 booted fine with 2 sticks ram in.