Quick question about X58 BIOS and CPU support

[dmoney1980]

If i have an older X58 Gigabyte board, will I be able to get it working with one of the newer socket 1366 CPU's even if the BIOS was never updated ? Will it show up as a generic CPU or at a lower speed ? I never worked with x58 so I'm unsure....

thanks in advance

 

[dmoney1980]

38 views and now help, where's the loooove ? ; -)

 

[Sickamore]

if it supports the cpu then yes. First you need to check gigabyte website to see what your board supports and doesn't. what board do you have.

 

[dmoney1980]

if it supports the cpu then yes. First you need to check gigabyte website to see what your board supports and doesn't. what board do you have.

It's a GA-ex58 ud5. It's not a issue of the board support the CPU, but an issue of the BIOS being out of date. The CPU I would like to use is a newer i7, which was not supported by the BIOS when the board was originally released. The newest BIOS does support it today though