using CPU's newer than the motherboard

[GunsMadeAmericaFree]

I recently bought a couple of the $15 Biostar Intel based boards (specs at bottom of this post). Socket 775. I had been set to buy a Celeron 3200 for about $45, but instead got in on the Tigerdirect deal for a retail boxed E5200 for $35 shipped.

Now there are several people online questioning whether this processor will even boot or work in the motherboard.

My experience with using processors that are newer than the board they are installed in is pretty good. However, I've always worked with older Asus boards, and on the AMD side of things. On those, I was always able to get newer processors to boot and work fine, even if they weren't identified properly. That is to say, I was able to get them to work fine as long as they didn't use more power than the board was rated for, in Watts.

For example, I was able to get a new Athlon II cpu to work just great in an old Asus motherboard, even though the Athlon II didn't come out for more than a year and a half after the board was manufactured. This was without a BIOS update of any kind.

Are Intel based boards more finicky in this regard? IE - will they not even boot with newer processors that aren't ID's by the BIOS?

Brand BIOSTAR
Model P4M890-M7 SE

Supported CPU
CPU Socket Type LGA 775
CPU Type Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor
Intel Pentium D Processor
Intel Pentium 4 Processor
Intel Celeron D Processor
Intel Celeron Processor 400 Sequence

FSB 533/800/1066MHz

Supported CPU Technologies Hyper-Threading Technology

Chipsets
North Bridge VIA P4M890
South Bridge VIA VT8237A

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The only hang up I see is the E5200 is a 65w part and the P4M890-M7 SE prefers 95w processors. Give it a try and let us know. You won't be out much even in the event of 'catastrophic failure.' I just threw that in there because I received that message on my very first computer. 🙂

 

[faster]

The last bios update from the manufacturer was in 2007, that CPU was released in 2008. IF, it boots, and it probably will, it will be missing the correct "microcode" for that processor. I ran one similar to that (a core2quad on a p35) for a month before i realized. There was a bios update available for mine though, and it changed the clock speed from 2Ghz to 3Ghz. Other than the reduced clock, my system didn't suffer any ill effects that I noticed. Go get yourself a E6300 from ebay for the same price. ($50)

 

[WT]

Anybody try this yet ? I have the same board/CPU combo at home and I will test it this weekend if I can find some free time.