can i do this

[alensenpai]

i have a oem motherboard from dell (to be specific its a:0r849j) and i wanna upgrade my processor from an i7 920 ( i know its bad) to a xeon x5680 or x5670 just to get more cores and more cache but i heard stories that it wont work so please help me i gotta know. 

btw my setup is this:

i7 920

12gb ddr3

hd7970

400 gb hdd

120 gb ssd (main drive)

dell 0R849J (motherboard bought used)

[Master Disaster]

Yeah, everything I can find about that board indicates it only supports Bloomfield i7s, namely the 920, 940 & 965.

[alensenpai]

so that means i cant?

 

[NelizMastr]

2 minutes ago, alensenpai said:

so that means i cant?

Yup. The BIOS doesn't have the necessary microcode and the OEM neglected to provide such support. Even if you could use Xeons (or added microcode for them), you'd be limited to the X55xx series which are all still quad cores as well.

[AskTJ]

BIOS doesn't support any chips except for the i7 920, 940 and 965. New board shopping. (Don't. Get a new system.

[alensenpai]

26 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Yup. The BIOS doesn't have the necessary microcode and the OEM neglected to provide such support. Even if you could use Xeons (or added microcode for them), you'd be limited to the X55xx series which are all still quad cores as well.

like i thought of buying a new board which is an lga 2011 based (x79 chipset) and buying an e5-2650v2 (if i didnt butcher the name) and to buy some ecc ram because this "new'' machine will be a worksation (btw not the huiuion or whatever their calld not that board)