E6750 on FSB1066?

[albenza]

What will happend - (besides from the CPU being underclocked), if I plug an E6750 FSB1333 in an AsRock 4CoreDual-VSTA which only supports FSB1066? will it run you think?

The thing is.. I can get the E6750 for the same price as an E6400 or E6420.

It would only be running on this mobo temporary for 2, maybe 3 months, while I save some money to buy DDRII RAM and a new mobo.

I already asked Asrock support, but as you can imagine they just informed me that it was not supported and gave me a link to their CPU support list for this mobo... bahhh

 

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: albenza

I already asked Asrock support, but as you can imagine they just informed me that it was not supported and gave me a link to their CPU support list for this mobo... bahhh

Did you expect them to tell you that it is supported while it is not...?

It won't run on this MOBO if it supports the 1066 FSB only - period.

 

[albenza]

No I didn't, what do you take me for? I was hoping for them to either tell me that they tested it and it didn't work, that they didn't test it so maybe there is a slim chance on my own responsibility of course, or, that they didn't test it because they know for a fact that there is no chance it will ever work - period!
Informing me that it's not "supported" and giving me a link to their CPU support list is IMO a somewhat unclear answer, which just means that they have nothing to do with this and if I am going to try this I am 100% on my own.

Besides from that, thanks for answering my question! However, it does not "only" support FSB1066, but 1066 is as high as it goes... "FSB1066/800/533MHz" (If you would care to press the well placed link) but I guess it makes no difference...

 

[JustaGeek]

I know the 1066/800/533 - am using its cousin, 775Dual-VSTA with the E6600. And I did care to press the link - well placed indeed LOL.

I believe that it is the limitation of the VIA chipset - my ASRock uses the VIA PT880 Pro/Ultra, whereas yours uses PT880 Ultra Northbridge chipset. I think that they are both overclocked to reach even the 1066MHz.

If you want, just get E6400 or E6420 and overclock it in the future (I know it's not possible to get even to 300/1200 MHz on the ASRock).

Otherwise - just wait these 2-3 months. The CPU prices will most likely be stable, and it will give you the opportunity to save some more money, too.

Good luck!

 

[albenza]

True, I've been reading about the overclocked northbridge to reach 1066MHz as well, but this doesn't meen it won't recognize and run the E6750, all though it may only run it at 1066Mhz.

Waiting is deffinently not an option. I got that hardware itch you know? I just gotta have something toy with.

Currently I'm awaiting response from asrock before making my final decision on wheter or not I'll go ahead and try it out, or if I should just buy something else. (I feel the itch getting worse every day).

 

[stevty2889]

I wouldn't try it..it is NOT supported, I made a foolish attempt like that once..and it blew up a PSU and fried the motherboard..I had a 1.6ghz northwood that ran on 400mhz FSB, but was overclocked to 533mhz FSB, I figured if it can overclock to 533mhz FSB, maybe a 533mhz FSB CPU will run on it..

It did, for about 30 seconds, it posted, and started loading windows, then went POP, as the PSU started smoking, and that was the end of the motherboard, I was lucky the CPU didn't get fried too...I highly recomend you don't try and run an unsupported CPU..

 

[bryanW1995]

you can get an ip 35 e for 74 AR and should be able to a decent % of that back from selling the asrock.

 

[albenza]

Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge, I decided to go with the much less expensive E2140 and instead buy a 7600GT PCI-E, this leaves me in a better postition in a couple of month when I buy new RAM and mobo, I can always update the CPU later and when i do I got 2 C2D comp's - One for me and one for my GF.

Once again, thanks a lot.