Motherboard for I3-3220

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sorry, i mistakenly read the table on the asus website. their boards don't officially support ivy bridge processors out of the box (according to their cpu support list) - i was mistaken in my previous post.. so there's no certainty the board will boot... one thing you could do is buy a celeron cpu (the g440 is officially supported by the earliest bios version - i checked) then return it and get refund

EDIT: at this point, you may buy any motherboard, install the cpu, flash the bios and ta da, it will work... asus boards have the crashfree bios feature... may be useful
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According to Asrock's CPU support list, it requires BIOS version 1.20 or 1.30 depending on the stepping of the Core i3-3220. The original BIOS version is 1.10, so technically the earliest boards don't support the Core i3-3220. Whether boards still ship with the 1.10 or 1.20 BIOS versions is impossible to say.

But I suspect the system would still boot even without official support for the 3220.
 
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Thanks for quick reply. I can't take a risk because i wont be able to update BIOS in case that system wouldn't boot. So I'll go with asus unless there is a cheaper motherboard which supports i3 3220? Don't have to be full size atx and i don't plan to overclock any of the components. Any suggestions?
 
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sorry, i mistakenly read the table on the asus website. their boards don't officially support ivy bridge processors out of the box (according to their cpu support list) - i was mistaken in my previous post.. so there's no certainty the board will boot... one thing you could do is buy a celeron cpu (the g440 is officially supported by the earliest bios version - i checked) then return it and get refund

EDIT: at this point, you may buy any motherboard, install the cpu, flash the bios and ta da, it will work... asus boards have the crashfree bios feature... may be useful
 
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one more thing, if you have an aftermarket cooler with the thermal paste not yet applied on the heatsink, you could mount it without the paste, you don't need it to just flash the bios, so the cpu will look as good as new when you return it
 
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Most of the motherboards were released at the same time the first Ivy Bridge CPUs were released. The thing is, the Core i3-3220 was released a few months later (September I think, with IB released in April). So most boards don't officially support the 3220 out of the box with their original BIOS version. But I do believe they've implemented fallback CPU microcodes that will allow you to boot anyway, if only to update the BIOS for full support.
 
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