- Nov 8, 2016
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I am planning to build a PC, with Asus X99-A II. Its just the best motherboard I ever found , and I got this list made on pcpartpicker.com, heres the link: http://pcpartpicker.com/b/JVtJ7P
However, the problem is that it needs a bios update prior to using the CPU(Intel Xeon E5 1620 v4), and before doing that, I can only use up to Haswell-E CPUs with the socket Land Grid Array(LGA) 2011-3, and Intel Xeon E5 1620 v4 is Broadwell-EP. So I thought it was not such a big deal to find a CPU that is dirt cheap, is a Haswell-E or lower class and uses LGA2011-3, but it costs a lot more than I can spend on a CPU that is going to be used to update just the bios. If you think I should use the Intel Xeon E5 1620 v3, which is Haswell-E permanantly, don't dream about that anymore because v4 is a dollar cheaper"DERP". Even if that doesn't matter, im going to use 128GB of RAM and the v3 isnt gonna support a ton of ram that is equivalent to a normal SSD. Also, the turbo is only 3.6GHZ, when the v4 is 3.8GHZ, and overclocking on the v3 would make it a power hog, compared to the v4. So thats all screwed up, so what can I do? Just in case, I have a laptop that works and has windows 9.1 on it with a 16GB Flash drive, can I update the bios with the USB Flash drive without the cpu? It may sound stupid, because you need a cpu to even turn on the motherboard, but just in case, and I also think probably not and it isnt likely. Or can I update it by connecting it to my laptop?
P.S I cant install stuff on my laptop, for example minecraft or photoshop because it creates a directory, but I can download .exe files and run them(but not installers in exe) or download stuff and put it into the flash drive.
However, the problem is that it needs a bios update prior to using the CPU(Intel Xeon E5 1620 v4), and before doing that, I can only use up to Haswell-E CPUs with the socket Land Grid Array(LGA) 2011-3, and Intel Xeon E5 1620 v4 is Broadwell-EP. So I thought it was not such a big deal to find a CPU that is dirt cheap, is a Haswell-E or lower class and uses LGA2011-3, but it costs a lot more than I can spend on a CPU that is going to be used to update just the bios. If you think I should use the Intel Xeon E5 1620 v3, which is Haswell-E permanantly, don't dream about that anymore because v4 is a dollar cheaper"DERP". Even if that doesn't matter, im going to use 128GB of RAM and the v3 isnt gonna support a ton of ram that is equivalent to a normal SSD. Also, the turbo is only 3.6GHZ, when the v4 is 3.8GHZ, and overclocking on the v3 would make it a power hog, compared to the v4. So thats all screwed up, so what can I do? Just in case, I have a laptop that works and has windows 9.1 on it with a 16GB Flash drive, can I update the bios with the USB Flash drive without the cpu? It may sound stupid, because you need a cpu to even turn on the motherboard, but just in case, and I also think probably not and it isnt likely. Or can I update it by connecting it to my laptop?
P.S I cant install stuff on my laptop, for example minecraft or photoshop because it creates a directory, but I can download .exe files and run them(but not installers in exe) or download stuff and put it into the flash drive.
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