Can You Put A Intel Xeon X3230 In a Gigabyte GA-5EASV-RH?

[JordanPlayz158]

So I was looking up lga775 motherboards from gigabyte and I found a Gigabyte GA-5EASV-RH and it has the chipset 3000 it says on the website only supports Intel®Prescott Processors and
Intel®Celeron Processors
but I looked up the Intel 3000 chipset and that chipset supports the X3230 So I want to check if it would work and could you explain why it doesn't work (if it doesn't work) if it has a chipset that supports that cpu

 

[Snipergod87]

Looks like it supports up to the following:

Pentium4 (Prescott) 3.73G/1066MHz 2M QBFJ ES
Pentium4 (Prescott) 3.4G/800MHz 2M SL7Z7
Pentium4 (Prescott) 2.8G/800MHz 1M QJ23 ES
Pentium4 (Cedar Mill) 3.6G/800MHz 2M C1 QMRJ ES
Celeron D (Cedar Mill) 3.6G/533MHz 512k C1 QQIA ES
PentiumD (Presler) 3.6G/800MHz 2M C1 QMUR ES
PentiumD (Presler) 3.4G/800MHz 2M B1 QJYX ES
PentiumD (Smithfield) 2.8G/800MHz 2Mx2 A0 QDOM ES
Core2 DuoE6300 1.86G/800MHz 2M A1 QJRM ES
Core2 DuoE6400 2.13G/1066MHz 4M A1 QJNG ES
Core2 DuoE6400 2.13G/1066MHz 2M B0 QLMJ ES
Core2 DuoE6700 2.66G/1066MHz 4M B0 QLLO ES
Core2 DuoE6300 1.86G/800MHz 2M B1 QPHC ES
Core2 DuoE6400 2.13G/1066MHz 2M B1 QPGY ES
Core2 DuoE6600 2.4G/1066MHz 4M B1 QPGE ES
Core2 DuoE6700 2.66G/1066MHz 4M B1 QPGA ES
Core2 DuoE6600
(Kentsfield)
2.4G/1066MHz 4M B0
QMAQ ES
Core2 DuoE6700
(Kentsfield)
2.66G/1066MHz 4M B1
QQMM ES

This is direct from their QVL list, they simply may have never added BIOS support for it.

 

[JordanPlayz158]

Could you please give me the best reason you can gather as to why if it has the chipset compatible to the X3230 that the motherboard doesn't support it (I think bios related).

 

[Rogue Leader]

Could you please give me the best reason you can gather as to why if it has the chipset compatible to the X3230 that the motherboard doesn't support it (I think bios related).

It specifically is BIOS related. If the BIOS doesn't have the microcode to recognize the CPU its not going to run.

 

[JordanPlayz158]

So in theory if someone were to code in the microcode into a bios update, some cheap motherboards that only supports Pentiums could then run core 2 quads, core 2 duos, etc. but i'm assuming you would need alot of coding knowledge and it wouldn't be easy to code in xeon microcode.

 

[Rogue Leader]

So in theory if someone were to code in the microcode into a bios update, some cheap motherboards that only supports Pentiums could then run core 2 quads, core 2 duos, etc. but i'm assuming you would need alot of coding knowledge and it wouldn't be easy to code in xeon microcode.

In theory, sure. In practice, thats not just something someone could pick up and do, its very complicated. You also still have the wattage limitation of the board. The power delivery system may not support certain levels of processor as well.

 

[JordanPlayz158]

Thanks for all the help!

 

[william p]

It may only support 2 core CPUs. It might also only support 32 bit OS ( just guessing here, but I wouldn't be surprised)..