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Help with my older 965p board

Raduque

Raduque

Lifer
I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 currently running a Conroe E6300 C2D at 2.8ghz (400x7). I'm going to be coming into possession of a Wolfdale C2D E8400 3ghz (333x9) soon and I want to run this chip instead.

Problem is, my rev1 board says it doesn't support 1333 FSB cpus. Will it work anyway, considering I'm already running this chip at 1600 FSB?
 
I put a 45nm pentium e5300 in the same board and it worked, though I wasn't able to run memory at full speed.
If you can overclock to the required fsb, it should work, but may have issues. I eventually just went with an am2+ board and a Phenom II so I could at least keep my memory. LGA775 stuff is jacked up enough in price that you can get phenom II + board for the same price as the equivalent intel cpu, maybe even cheaper.
 
965P support of 45nm chips is iffy.
I had trouble with an E5200 on an ASUS (forget the model #) and an ABIT IB9 Pro even though both purported to support 45nm CPUs. Works fine at stock, but you start getting odd errors when OCing.

The same boards were pushing E6400s at 3.3GHz.
 
While I can’t tell you for sure on the Asus board I can tell you on an Intel® Desktop Board D965LT (which I used to own). No this board wouldn’t support a 1333 FSB processor. It wouldn’t even boot with a non support processor in it. The top of the line CPU that I could get on that board was the Intel Core™ 2 Quad Q6600.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team
 
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What's the reason for the 956p chipset not supporting the 45nm CPUs? I'm already running a higher FSB and vocre than the E8400 requires, so I don't know why it wouldn't work. I have the chip in my hands, but I haven't really the time to change out the CPUs and heatsink and thermal paste till later this week.

Although, if this P35 board I got with the chip is working, the question may be moot.
 
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