To be sure of it give me the motherboard name and model number and we'll check to be sure.
He posted it in the OP.
To be sure of it give me the motherboard name and model number and we'll check to be sure.
Trouble is I'd have to buy a new mobo if I got anything better than 3770k. Starts getting expensive after that!
Board has to be on BIOS version of at least F5 as I stated in my first post:Keep your old mobo it'll support the 3770k.
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Socket 1155 - Intel P67 - GA-P67-DS3-B3 (rev. 1.0)
Go ahead and update the bios to 2.0 so it'll be ready for the chip and fix some issues with 1.0.
Use the windows bios update from GB and have everything closed down.
According to the CPU Support List on that page, yes.
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Socket 1155 - Intel P67 - GA-P67-DS3-B3 (rev. 1.0)
Requires you to be on at least BIOS v F5...so make sure you're updated on your BIOS.
Board has to be on BIOS version of at least F5 as I stated in my first post:
Gigabyte's revisions (1.0 vs 2.0) aren't software or firmware - they're hardware revisions to the actual board itself - which can't be just "updated".
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GIGABYTE How to Reflash Motherboard BIOS
It can be updated through windows been doing it this way since lga 775.
Yeah..I know... lol. I'm not disputing that fact. I'm just making you aware of the fact that the "revision 1.0" vs "revision 2.0" refers to hardware revisions, not BIOS/firmware revisions. Gigabyte prefixes their BIOS versions with "F" (I assume for firmware).
The issue being you said make sure you update to '2.0' whereas that would be revision number of the board, not the bios version.
The issue being you said make sure you update to '2.0' whereas that would be revision number of the board, not the bios version.
Why don't we all just drop the talk about bios or what not and move on ?
This doesn't need to go on forever, you want general chat, offtopic forum is for that.