hey guys!
whats happening
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i have this board...
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5PEVM/#support
and its among a few boards that have DDR400 + AGP support while allowing you to run core 2 duo processors .. im pretty sure there is no mention of pentium dual-core on the supported cpus list but im not surprised that it works..
as to the mystery of the lower fsb speed.. i signed up just to say that..
this board will always default to base FSB of 800 Mhz as long as the System Integrated video is used.. to get the 1066 FSB speed, *YOU MUST USE AN EXTERNAL VIDEO CARD* this is why his processor is showing at 800 FSB speed
(multiplier * 200 = Ghz speed, use multi times 266 for 1066 bus, 333 for 1333 bus, 400 for 1600 bus etc etc)
i just purchased a core duo extreme x6800 cpu (2.93ghz) to pair with my P5PE-VM board.. but before i did i had this nagging hunch that i think this board could work with some more recent chips that were released after the last time the bios was edited.. because this board is from summer 2006.. but there were chips released in 07 08 09 even 2010 that can fit into this board, socketwise.. and also, i saw a similar board by Asrock that also has support for quad core q6600.. and also 45nm wolfdale cpus...
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/775i65G%20R3.0/?cat=CPU
i think the pentium dual-core e6600 is indeed a 45nm cpu so im just wondering how it is you are able to overcome the compatibility problems so easily...?
my question to you wizards here on the site is:
would it be possible to get this same board (Asus P5PE-VM) to accept an e7600 wolfdale core that runs at the boards oc 1066 bus giving me the normal speed for this chip of 3.06ghz? (running with internal graphics would result in 800 FSB and a speed of 2.3ghz with the e7600, IF it could work)
http://ark.intel.com/products/41495/Inte...66-MHz-FSB
AND..
might it be possible to enable the use of quad core cpus on this motherboard? asrock has clearly done this using the same intel chipset... via bios update
also, the original poster would have had better success using a pentium dual core e5xxx series chip with this board as they have 800fsb aswell, but still clock to the proper ghz clock speed.. this would ensure 100% compatibility with this board.
it would be nice to have these cpus working on the asus board because the asus board also features gigabit ethernet and the asrock is only 10/100