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I have an Intel E7300 that I would like to put to use ( and OC ) but the only 775 MoBo I have is a Gigabyte GA-8VM800M-775, I've seen where the board will take an E6850 and all the way up to a QX6850 but I can't find out if it will take this E7300.
Has anybody tried this ?
If I do will it hurt the CPU ?
Is there a BIOS update that I need to get ? I think F9 is the newest I've seen ( March 2012 ) but I couldn't find an updated CPU supported list...
The guy I got the E7300 had it in a Gigabyte G41MT-S2PT and I saw where he had it up to 3.4+/-Mhz and it was stable, he got a Quad that he put in the Mobo now, so I traded him a Sony CD/DVD burner for the E7300.
Any info would be helpful because since this is an older Mobo I'm having trouble finding info about it.
 
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Thanks for that info because this CPU has been working just fine in a different board.
This mobo still has the older BIOS on it from when I had a Celeron D in it, so after I put the E7300 on it I'm kinda gonna have to start out with the old BIOS. But I just downloaded the latest BIOS (F9) into a folder on my main Rig ( the one I'm using Right now-ASUS M3A32 -MVP Deluxe Wi-Fi Edition w/ Phenom II 965 @3.69Ghz) and I was going to copy it to a USB stick to use with the other rig. I haven't stuck the CPU in the board yet, but my question is will the older BIOS recognize the E7300 ? or should I update it before installing the newer CPU ?
Like I said at Gigabytes Website the list only went up to the E6850, but now there's a newer BIOS out.
 
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Hey guys thanks for the help, I checked on what you both said and confirmed it ( even thou some VIA chipset will run 1066mhz like the one on the BIOSTAR P4M800 Pro -M7 Ver. 8.0 (http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=94#spec) and it supports Core 2 Duo's, but only up to the E6400. So I guess I'm just going to have to find a new/used motherboard for this E7300 to work with and pull this Mobo out of the case and stuff it in another one I have and sell it on Craigslist for peanuts.

Any good suggestions ?

I want the board to have the ability to OC the CPU and a PCI Express slot. I have sound cards and plenty of HDD's, PSU's, GPU's and cases, its just this Gigabyte board was the only one I had that was an Intel 775, all the rest of the boards and CPU's I have are AMD type.
 
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Hey "u gonna Squeal b4 we cookya" , I also did some checking around and found that the cost to buy parts to use this E7300 are not worth the expense. There's a lot cheaper options out there like you said. I was just hoping to reuse an old mobo I already had. I think I'll just wait until I get another upgrade or recovery job for someone's computer problems and hopefully they have a board I can get or I'll keep my eyes open for something to pop up, lord knows I get different request every week. ( it a side job I've been doing for quite a few years, 1st build was in 1998 with 13 bags of parts and a beige box from a computer fest here in Charlotte...a PII 350Hhz with MMX technology/32mb of PC100/8GB HDD and Bellsouth dial up......whoopee, but back then it was great for the times and $300....currently I have an ASUS mobo with a Phenom II 965 BE 3.4 running at 3.69( I haven't stepped on it much, I'm waiting for the thermal paste to get right since I just installed an OCZ Vendetta 2 monster heat pipe and the ASUS cool Mempipes, my PowerUp 2526 Full ATX case has 1 front intake ,1 side, 1 rear exhaust, so the insides say pretty cool and my house is A/C'd year round @72, so I don't think over heating is going to be a problem, heck I get more heat out of the Radeon 4870 1GB DDR5 GPU than any thing else.
So I'm fine with my main rig, I was just trying to get that E7300 to work in a board I had got for free, (well I removed that FBI Ransomware virus for a client) I got the CPU for $15 last year so its no big deal if it sits for a while longer. I've also got another system I use for just burning CD's ( Phenom II 550 BE )
But thanks for your advice and you have a great day.

P.S. if I pick up a cheap mobo, I might be back for some advice on how hard I can push the E7300, I actually have a water cooling heatsink setup that will fit on it, just need the right mobo to play with...
 
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That's a good suggestion about the Goodwill store, we've got a Goodwill computer store here in Charlotte and I've bought some older DDR1 from them @$10 for a 1gig stick where on Fleabay they were the same or more with shipping cost added. I've been watching Craigslist for a compatible board, but haven't seen one yet. I might ride out to the Goodwill after work this evening.

OMG your not gonna believe what I just found....a freakin list of every motherboard that is compatible with the E7300...it was on CPU-Upgrades website...http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/CPUs/Intel/Core_2_Duo/E7300_motherboards.html...and bigger than shit that old Gigabyte GA-8VM800M-775 wasn't on the list.
Man I am so sorry I wasted you guy's time....god I feel like a retard..because I've used CPU-Upgrade's site before when I was trying to find a board for an old Athlon 64.
Well it wasn't a total waste, you did give me some good advice and I appreciate it....
ya know my ol' pappy use to say this and it still holds true Today:

"it is only thru Communication, that knowledge is Gained....

and I'm a bit smarter than I was yesterday thanks to ya'll.
 
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Gigabyte GA-8VM800M-775 I have this mobo and it is running a duel core but I never thought it would run QX6850 are you shore it will run this ?if so I mite get one for it let me know will you
 
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