ASRock z77 Pro3 Quick Question

kmelaza

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On their website they list this motherboard to come with a BIOS release of 1.00, but when you go to the CPU support list it says that the motherboard supports a range of CPU's starting from the 1.10 BIOS release, and it only supports 2 Pentium Ivy bridge cpu's out of the box, so my question is is this information wrong?

i cant seem to get in touch with them to ask them about this, so does any 1 own this motherboard or has tested it before to see if it works with other CPU's out of the box other then the 2 listed with out the need to flash the BIOS? or will i need to purchase 1 of the 2 CPU's in that list to flash the bios and be able to use all the other CPU's on the list.

ASRock CPU Support List
ASRock BIOS Release List

 
Solution
1.90 < newest BIOS
1.10 < supported since 4/18/2012

If you purchased one recently or are going to it should have a BIOS that supports the newer chips as that is an old Bios release .
The info is right, if you buy the MB now you don't worry about the BIOS/CPU issue because when you check the BIOS like the P1.10 you talk about, it came out 4/18/12. Even the P1.6 came out 9/21/12. So if you buy now then the MB will work with all the cpu's out of the box because the MB has at least newer version BIOS than the P1.10. I think it maybe has the P1.9 version (12/17/12). Does it make sense?

BIOS: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.us.asp?cat=Download&os=BIOS&Model=Z77%20Pro3
 

kmelaza

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I would say it depends on the date when the board was manufactured, but what do i know lol.