• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

X58 Micro maybe supporting Xeon?

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!
Supporter
Joined
Mar 26, 2014
Messages
9,269 (2.52/day)
Location
Washington, USA
System Name Veral
Processor 5950x
Motherboard MSI MEG x570 Ace
Cooling Corsair H150i RGB Elite
Memory 4x16GB G.Skill TridentZ
Video Card(s) Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil
Storage Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB
Display(s) Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx + 2x AOC 2425W
Case Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2
Audio Device(s) Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550
Power Supply Corsair HX850
Mouse Corsair Nightsword
Keyboard Corsair K55
VR HMD HP Reverb G2
Software Windows 11 Professional
Benchmark Scores PEBCAK
So my old roomie has an EVGA X58 Micro. It's only listing the i7's as compatible but to get the most out of the board I was thinking of a x5680 or the sort and overclocking it. He's on a budget and it's either that, or an i7 975.

Anyone happen to know if the Xeons are unofficially supported?
 
Joined
Jul 19, 2015
Messages
927 (0.29/day)
System Name The Banshee
Processor Ryzen 5 5600 @ 4.45GHz
Motherboard AsRock X370 Taichi
Cooling CM Hyper 212 Plus
Memory 16GB 2x8 G.Skill Trident Z 3600 CL16 1.35V
Video Card(s) RTX 3060M 6GB @ 1750-2000MHz Core / 1875MHz Mem
Storage 1TB Kingston NV2 & 1TB Mass Storage HDD
Display(s) LG 25UM57-P @ 75Hz OC
Case Fractal Design Arc XL
Audio Device(s) ATH-M20x
Power Supply Evga SuperNova 1300 G2
Mouse Evga Torq X3
Keyboard Thermaltake Challenger
Software Win 10 Pro 64-Bit
That board needs a hardware mod to work with the X56xx Xeon's. You can try a W3670/80/90 series chip instead since they're pretty much just rebranded Gulftown so they should work without a mod.
 
Top