Does Xeon x3430 support gigabyte h55 motherboard?

[kabi007aj]

I have a gigabyte h55 1156 socket mobo. Currently I am running Intel g2020 CPU on the board. Want to upgrade with a Xeon x series. But I happened to know that my mobo supports Xeon x3450 CPU which is indeed much costlier than x3430. Won't x3430 really support my mobo?

 

[toshibitsu]

It's compatible with a x3480 & x3450... but it does not list the x3430 as being supported.

 

[okcnaline]

Um. No. ENTIRELY different sockets.

 

[kabi007aj]

It's compatible with a x3480 & x3450... but it does not list the x3430 as being supported.

 

[kabi007aj]

Yes, I too found so. But won't it really run?

 

[bignastyid]

I have a gigabyte h55 1156 socket mobo. Currently I am running Intel g2020 CPU on the board.

How? The g2020 is socket 1155 and is not compatible with that socket 1156 board.

 

[okcnaline]

Looky here. The X3430 is a LGA 771 CPU. There's 771 pins on the bottom of it. Your current G2020 is a LGA 1156 CPU. It has 1156 pins on the bottom of it. The 771-pin CPU is not going to physically fit a 1156-pin socket. You actually risk damaging the CPU and the motherboard if you even ATTEMPT to run it.

 

[bignastyid]

Looky here. The X3430 is a LGA 771 CPU. There's 771 pins on the bottom of it. Your current G2020 is a LGA 1156 CPU. It has 1156 pins on the bottom of it. The 771-pin CPU is not going to physically fit a 1156-pin socket. You actually risk damaging the CPU and the motherboard if you even ATTEMPT to run it.

The Xeon X3430 is socket 1156.
https://ark.intel.com/products/42927/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X3430-8M-Cache-2_40-GHz

The G2020 is socket 1155
https://ark.intel.com/products/71070/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G2020-3M-Cache-2_90-GHz

 

[okcnaline]

X3430 that fits on the 5500 chipset and not 5000... Now I remember. My bad.