MSI H81-P33 Board for i5 CPU?

[jim_blake]

Hi. Can my MSI H81-P33 mobo handle an i5 Haswell CPU with no problems? (Non-K versions like 4460 or 4690)
I'm not gonna overclock the CPU and I'm gonna pair it with an R9 270 for gaming. Currently using an i3-4150. The mobo bios is updated to the latest version (v1.5).
Didn't find any info on H81 mobo tier list. I'd really appreciate any comments and suggestions.
Thank you so much

 

[herrwizo]

It will work without any issues, provided you have the latest BIOS on it. If you don't, upgrade it first before swapping the CPU.

 

[LucoTF]

On the msi website you linked it has a CPU support list! Click support, compatibility, CPU support

It seems to support all LGA1150 CPUs, although you will need to update the bios for some newer cpus

 

[jim_blake]

It will work without any issues, provided you have the latest BIOS on it. If you don't, upgrade it first before swapping the CPU.

Bios is updated to the latest version (v1.5).

 

[jim_blake]

On the msi website you linked it has a CPU support list! Click support, compatibility, CPU support
It seems to support all LGA1150 CPUs, although you will need to update the bios for some newer cpus

It says i5-4460 and i5-4690 are supported since bios v1.2. My bios is v1.5. I want to know if my mobo can handle an i5 given its higher power usage (30w more than an i3), and if it's gonna be stable and cool.

 

[LucoTF]

This isn't like AMD motherboards, you aren't going to get power delivery issues and thermal throttling with a non-OC cpu.

You're good to go my friend

 

[herrwizo]

Everything is good, go for i5.

 

[jim_blake]

This isn't like AMD motherboards, you aren't going to get power delivery issues and thermal throttling with a non-OC cpu.

You're good to go my friend

Well, that's a relief to know. I thought the mobo power-phase count and quality would affect the performance and if I were to use a higher TDP chip (even Non-OC), kinda like a mobo bottleneck, not feeding enough power into the CPU!

So that's not an issue for Intel Non-K processors?

 

[LucoTF]

We're still talking about a sub 100w chip here. You would probably have to put in an i5-4690k and overclock it before you started to test the limits of that motherboard. It's actually quite a popular budget board for overclocking the pentium g3258 (54w)

 

[Karsten75]

All has been observed, this motherboard is fine for Haswell i5 and i7 processors. If you don't care about the difference in functionality between the H97 and the H81 chipsets, then this board will do just fine.

The list of processors and required BIOS levels is in the compatibility tab on that page you linked: http://www.msi.com/support/mb/H81P33.html#support-cpu

MSI is one of the 4 top-tier motherboard and component manufacturers. I have at least one somewhere in one of my computers and all my graphics cards happens to be MSI. I can't speak for their tech support quality since I've never needed to contact them.

 

[rolli59]

Yep it will work fine with any Haswell CPU.

 

[Tradesman1]

SHould be fine, yes