H110 + 6500

[Psittac]

Need to fix a friends computer, mb is bad and I don't have a DDR3 board so I'm digging out my never came together HTPC and giving him that, but I've got a 7th gen Pentium in it (why it never came together) and I need to know if this board will support an I5 6500

 

Board is an MSI H110IPRO

 

Guess I'll be googling the board and checking, but figured I would see if anyone could make my life easier.

 

*edit: ok it's on the list of supported cpu's but so is the G4560 I was attempting to use in it.  However the G4560 requires a newer BIOS?  How do I tell what BIOS this mb shipped with?

[RONOTHAN##]

5 minutes ago, Psittac said:

I need to know if this board will support an I5 6500

It will.

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[Psittac]

Just now, RONOTHAN## said:

It will.

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Thank you, I just found that and edited my original post.  Would you be willing to read my post again and see if you can answer the UEFI perdicament I'm in?

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, Psittac said:

Thank you, I just found that and edited my original post.  Would you be willing to read my post again and see if you can answer the UEFI perdicament I'm in?

Sure. Each motherboard manufacturer will do it different for how you figure out what the initial BIOS revision is. Some will put a sticker on the BIOS chip itself (every ASRock board I've used has done this), some will have it printed on the box it came with, some will let you reverse search the serial number to figure out when the board was manufactured and then you can reverse that to figure out what BIOS revision it came with, and some you will have absolutely no idea. Given this is a super out board that sounds like you got used, I'd hazard a guess that it doesn't have the original box, and even then I believe most MSI boards fall into the "no idea" camp (at least the ones I've used). 

 

That said, you can look at the compatibility list I sent and see this board works with the i5 6500 from BIOS revision 3.0. If you then head to the BIOS download page and look, revision 3.0 was the first BIOS release for that motherboard, so no matter what BIOS revision is on that motherboard it will work with an i5 6500 assuming that nothing is faulty. 

[Psittac]

1 minute ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Sure. Each motherboard manufacturer will do it different for how you figure out what the initial BIOS revision is. Some will put a sticker on the BIOS chip itself (every ASRock board I've used has done this), some will have it printed on the box it came with, some will let you reverse search the serial number to figure out when the board was manufactured and then you can reverse that to figure out what BIOS revision it came with, and some you will have absolutely no idea. Given this is a super out board that sounds like you got used, I'd hazard a guess that it doesn't have the original box, and even then I believe most MSI boards fall into the "no idea" camp (at least the ones I've used). 

 

That said, you can look at the compatibility list I sent and see this board works with the i5 6500 from BIOS revision 3.0. If you then head to the BIOS download page and look, revision 3.0 was the first BIOS release for that motherboard, so no matter what BIOS revision is on that motherboard it will work with an i5 6500 assuming that nothing is faulty. 

Thank you very much for your knowledge and experience!!!  I think I got the board new or refurbished from newegg a couple of years ago, but now that I think about it the box it came in wasn't OEM.  But your logic is bullet proof and I will move forward with it, thank you again.