ECS Z97 Machine + Pentium K G3258

[Bungz]

Hello guys

I have been waiting patiently for the Pentium G3258 (Pentium K) for a while and so when it hit I thought I would have a play with one.

I picked up a newly released Z97 chipset board purely because I thought they would have all the refresh chips supported.

However it seems not, it shows my lovely Pentium K as a lowly G3420 :\

Im waiting for a new bios to come out then aren't I? Which as it is a ECS board may never happen unless someone can point me in the direction of their online support / forum?

Pretty angry about this, other manufacturers have added support for their old Z87 chipsets already!

 

[crashtech]

It wasn't hard to find the CPU list for that board. Odd that the G3258 is not on the list.

Also, my luck with ECS ran out about a decade ago with the K7S5A. Stuff I have gotten from them since has just proven to be substandard. YMMV.


I'd RMA it if I was you.

 

[Burpo]

Pretty angry about this, other manufacturers have added support for their old Z87 chipsets already!

You bought the ECS board..

 

[MarkLuvsCS]

Shockingly there are a few HX1 chipsets that have added support for the pentium k OC. Asrock I know had a few they just updated bios's on the 4th. There was another thread someone tried compiling cheap OC capable boards.

 

[Bungz]

Yes it seems that most manufacturers are very much on the ball with updates and some aren't.

No replies from ECS tech support so far.

Picked up a gigabyte z97m-d3h with known support for half price so that will sort me out but the ECS looks like a good board and had M2 support. Will put it to one side and hope it gets a bios fix or I get a i5 for it

 

[Bungz]

Just an update.

ECS USA customer support got back to me a few times and eventually linked me to a bios that supports overclocking.

Have yet to try it but was relatively impressed they went out to resolve the problem for me specifically as I don't get the impression a G3258 had been tested by them upto that point.

:thumbsup: to ECS for that.

 

[crashtech]

Pretty sure they would have recognized that as an omission on their part; there shouldn't really be a Z97 that won't OC a G3258.

 

[Bungz]

I totally agree!

Hence I was pretty peeved in my first post, but hey that's computers.