frighten98 wrote:
Im going to buy a r420 motherboard, i find this on ebay for 160€, and I buyed 16 gb of RDIMM RAM (2x 8gb) for 40€.
The processor will be an E5-2665, are they going to be compatible ?
In this page I seen the processor listed.
The Ram are Samsung M393B1K70CH0-YH9.
- Yes, motherboard looks fine. But why you buying HP motherboard, honestly they are pieces of garbage. There will be plenty of restriction believe me you will regret it if you want upgrade anything. From cabinet to power supply there is too much restriction from HP. Please go for Asus or any other manufacture even you can get 1 yr warranty.
- See if you find 1600 Mhz RAM.
- Well according to the HP link its showing compatibility but see the link which I provide you it does not mention the CPU. And whenever V1,V2 or V3 is mention with CPU it’s not same CPU, its shows the generation gap. So never think same model with different version V1 and V2 are going to compatible with motherboard.
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA4-0128ENUC.pdf
The reason I’m telling you not go with HP motherboard are : If Intel CPU will supporting your chipset but HP motherboard restricted that CPU for computability to work in their Motherbaord. If you go different motherboard then you don’t have to pay hefty amount for HP component.
I will just give one example. If you buying HP Motherboard and you don’t know the block date then you don’t know the CPU support. They are created their own mess.
If the boot block date is 12/28/2011, the Z420 supports only the E5-16xx v1 processors.
If the boot block date is 03/06/2013, the Z420 supports both the E5 v1 and v2 processors.
These boot block dates apply to the Z420, Z620, and Z820.
HP does not support, nor provides tools, to update the BIOS boot block. There are many threads discussing this.
I also own two HP z420 and other machines. And I had done the upgrade for PSU & GPU. And I faced too much problem. That’s reason I’m telling you.