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EVGA X58 SLI Classified & Xeon E5645 compatibility

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2012/10/11 06:38:45 (permalink)
Hi, guys!
Does anybody know about compatibility of EVGA X58 SLI Classified 141-BL-E760-A1 () and Xeon E5645 Westmere-EP?
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    Re:EVGA X58 SLI Classified & Xeon E5645 compatibility 2012/10/11 09:26:05 (permalink)
    It should work without an issue.  It is on the CPU support list.
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    Re:EVGA X58 SLI Classified & Xeon E5645 compatibility 2012/10/11 10:35:51 (permalink)
    LGA1366 Xeons did not appear until about 6 months after LGA1366 i7's, so some early motherboard revisions will not support -EP Xeons of any kind. 
     
    From EVGA technician _NickM, these board revisions have support:
     
    E757 - rev 1.1  
    E758 - rev 1.2  
    E760 - rev 1.1   
    E762 - rev 1.1  
    E767 - all 
    E768 - all 
     
    Ife you have 1.0 rev of E760, you can't use -EP Xeons; and it isn't about updating a BIOS, your board needs to be wired for their support, thus board revisions.   Check by looking at your board at the lower left corner near the PCIe slots, it should be in white letters.
     
    Note: That post was from September 2010, so any new X58 board revisions thereafter have default support, i.e. if you purchase a new E758 now, it will be sold as a new revision to take -EP Xeons to qualify for their advertised CPU support list as pcmaster00 linked.
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    Re:EVGA X58 SLI Classified & Xeon E5645 compatibility 2012/10/11 10:40:45 (permalink)
    This is true and false.  The 1.0 revisions of the motherboard can support -EP Xeons with a minor hardware tweak that EVGA does/did to the motherboards.  There are a good amount of the 1.0 boards that supported the -EP Xeons out of the box, but yes, the early early ones did not.
     
    Frankly, if you have a 1.0 revision board, it can't hurt to try it.  If it doesn't work, EVGA will likely help you out with a sudo-RMA.  What they did in the past was have you ship your board in, they do the modification to the board, and ship you your board right back.  That way you don't have to have the worry about getting a recertified board.

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    Re:EVGA X58 SLI Classified & Xeon E5645 compatibility 2012/10/11 11:25:57 (permalink)
    Thx for replies, fellas
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