P4P800 and Intel 2.8E CPU

  • Thread starter Thread starter Seller.Buyer
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Seller.Buyer said:
Will this board run this CPU?? running a 2.8C right now.

You can get details here:

http://www.asus.it/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx

You can also go here, and type Prescott into the search box
in the upper left corner:

http://www.asus.it/support/faq/faq.aspx

One of the articles mentions the later BIOS adding microcode,
which doesn't necessarily mean that the processor won't
POST without the new BIOS.

To see if people are having trouble running Prescott processors
on these boards, try using the search engine on Abxzone.com

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/search.php

According to this, the BIOS upgrade is necessary:

http://abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=68485

HTH,
Paul
 
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