Has anyone successfully installed an E8400 in a P5K-VM ?
Asus have yet to provide a BIOS nor have they placed the E8xxx on the CPU support list. Of course some shill review sites are publishing lists heralding support based on marketing guff from Asus. I have tried to get a positive response from Asus support and on Asus forums all to no avail. Even the P965 and non-VM P5K versions have BIOS for Wolfdale. Is the P5K-VM a dead-end board?
Is P5K-VM a dead-end board? No Wolfdale Bios from Asus.
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All G33 Mobos should be able to handle 45nm out of the box. Unless there's some word out there that wolfdale doesn't work, I'd assume it works. You're talking about one of the most recent asus microatx boards out there, I'd be more than little surprised it they didn't support all current intel chips.
That's just marketing guff and hardware review site regurgitation. They may work, but I have yet to find a success story, reliable or otherwise. Here's the response from the Asus P5K-VM MB Forum moderator after pointing me to the supported cpu list:
"Here is the listing of supported processors. The $1000.00 QX9650 is listed so other 45nm parts should work. But until a BIOS becomes available, a processor is not supported and use of an unsupported processor constitutes an 'improper use'..."
Lots of "should" out there, but not a lot of people willing to risk their warranties.
"Here is the listing of supported processors. The $1000.00 QX9650 is listed so other 45nm parts should work. But until a BIOS becomes available, a processor is not supported and use of an unsupported processor constitutes an 'improper use'..."
Lots of "should" out there, but not a lot of people willing to risk their warranties.