Xeon X5450 Microcode Update [Dell Vostro 230]

[DeathBringer]

A VRM chip on the board had fried. ... I am going to try to find a branded board that is known to work with this mod vs a Dell Intel branded one.

Bad news. I advice to buy cheap motherboard based on H110 chipset and cheap Pentium G4560. It's faster than all Xeon 5400 series.

[boredherobrine13]

My mod has microcode for X5450. But it can't be loaded cause CPU don't loads BIOS.

A VRM chip on the board had fried. ... I am going to try to find a branded board that is known to work with this mod vs a Dell Intel branded one.

Bad news. I advice to buy cheap motherboard based on H110 chipset and cheap Pentium G4560. It's faster than all Xeon 5400 series.

I mean yea, but I can get a nice Asus P5Q for like $20 total...so I mean....still cheaper xD. This is literally trying to build a PC for almost nothing. It's going to be paired with a GTX 650 Ti BOOST and 6GB Ram.