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sky173d
03-08-2008, 04:28 AM
I want to upgrade from my E6420 to the new E8400. My motherboard is as ASUS P4BW-LA 775 socket P965 Express. From my research everything points that it will support the 45nm processors. But what about the Bus Speed? Will it likely need a BIOS update? I have no knowledge level about how to do that.
My Specs: OS-Vista Ultimate, E6420@2.13GHz, 4GB installed RAM, GeForce 8800GTS 512 Graphics card. Would appreciate any guidance.

Victor
03-08-2008, 05:05 AM
officially I think that the P965 does not support Penryn (which is the E8400 CPU). If your mobo manufacture has a bios for it which says that it support it, then it will work, otherwise, it may not work.