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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: TrivisionZero on August 17, 2015, 10:36:19 PM

Title: PCPartPicker says that motherboard and CPU may be incompatible...
Post by: TrivisionZero on August 17, 2015, 10:36:19 PM

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/myt2CJ

It says the BIOS might need an update prior to the CPU, I just want to make sure that the BIOS is updated to use that CPU. Thanks!

Title: Re: PCPartPicker says that motherboard and CPU may be incompatible...
Post by: Accessless on August 18, 2015, 10:01:22 AM

According to Gigabyte both motherboards (revision 1 & 2) will support that CPU out of the box. No BIOS update exists that expands CPU support for those motherboards.

Title: Re: PCPartPicker says that motherboard and CPU may be incompatible...
Post by: patio on August 18, 2015, 01:26:24 PM

He has spent a week in Chat being told the same things...

As i suggested to him i would not buy a MBoard/CPU combo that required a BIOS flash...
Too many other options out there.