gigabyte ga-945pl-s3 LGA 771 to LGA 775 Xeon mod

[BudgetBaller]

I have Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3 rev-1 motherboard with Pentium 4 Prescott CPU lying around. And i want to know if i could use Xeon X5450 (or similar spec) CPU with it.

Motherboard have Award BIOS and microcode adding is explained in this article https://www.delidded.com/how-to-update-cpu-microcode-in-award-or-phoenix-bios/

Maybe someone is tried these type of mods themselves and could share experience (and someone can tell if this motherboard will support this)?

Is this mod worth it? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

that board is too old for the core 2 quads, its very unlikley it will work. It also only goes up to a 800fsb.

[BudgetBaller]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

that board is too old for the core 2 quads, its very unlikley it will work. It also only goes up to a 800fsb.

In Gigabyte website is said this motherboard supports Intel® Core™2 Extreme. 

Does it counts?

[Blissed]

No, its a chipset limitation - no quad cores. I suppose it could work with a xeon dual core - but whats the point. Unless you just want to do the mod - ive done it and yes its fun but if thats the case get a 775 mainboard with a newer chipset 

[BudgetBaller]

About FSB speed you are correct. Even if this work, CPU performance will be decreased

[BudgetBaller]

1 minute ago, Blissed said:

No, its a chipset limitation - no quad cores. I suppose it could work with a xeon dual core - but whats the point. Unless you just want to do the mod - ive done it and yes its fun but if thats the case get a 775 mainboard with a newer chipset 

Thanks for your suggestion, i thought that in first when i wanted to do this. I have seen many people have done this mod with better ASUS motherboard.

[BudgetBaller]

This motherboard

[Blissed]

Well, i cant tell the model of that board...

You only need a 775 which supports quad core's and an mainstream chipset. There are some server/industrial chipsets which dont work with the mod

 

 

[BudgetBaller]

1 minute ago, Blissed said:

Well, i cant tell the model of that board...

You only need a 775 which supports quad core's and an mainstream chipset. There are some server/industrial chipsets which dont work with the mod

 

 

Yes, but why my motherboard supports Intel® Core™2 Extreme, when that is a quad core CPU. It's exception? 

[Blissed]

Whats the model?

[BudgetBaller]

1 minute ago, Blissed said:

Whats the model?

I think QX9650. Other CPU was mobile version

[Blissed]

I mean the mainboard in the pic?

[BudgetBaller]

2 minutes ago, Blissed said:

I mean the mainboard in the pic?

ASUS PQ5 Deluxe

[BudgetBaller]

1 minute ago, BudgetBaller said:

ASUS PQ5 Deluxe

But its unreasonable pricy for motherboard of that age.

[Blissed]

Well, thats perfect for the mod. This board should be a strong oc board - but thats also dependent on the CPU.

my confusion came from intels stupid naming scheme a "Intel® Core™2 Extreme" can be a dual core or a quad core. an in older boards only the dual cores work, so older mobos support some Intel® Core™2 Extreme cpus but only the dual cores...

[BudgetBaller]

2 minutes ago, Blissed said:

Well, thats perfect for the mod. This board should be a strong oc board - but thats also dependent on the CPU.

my confusion came from intels stupid naming scheme a "Intel® Core™2 Extreme" can be a dual core or a quad core. an in older boards only the dual cores work, so older mobos support some Intel® Core™2 Extreme cpus but only the dual cores...

Understood. Thanks for help!