Will my mobo support the Intel Core 2 Duo E7300?

[fahdh2]

I have a 2 year old Gateway GM5266e PC. Is an Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 2.66ghz Wolfdale CPU compatible with its motherboard? It previously had an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 2.13ghz 65nm Conroe CPU.

These are the components:
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1009208/1009208cl3.shtml

This is the motherboard (refer to specs and product views please):
http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Intel2/4006135R/4006135Rnv.shtml

Thanks a lot in advance.

 

[cfvh600]

From the specs of the board it looks like the E7300 should work, but keep in mind that the E6400 is a 65nm chip compared to the E7300 which is 45nm. It would probably be best to contact Gateway and confirm whether the E7300 is supported by the motherboard.

 

[someguy7]

Gateway p965 board will not support it. There are some boards with p965 chipsets that unoffically support 1333 fsb and 45nm's. But dont count on a oem board to have bios updates for them.

I would bet that board woudnt even run the e6*50 series of cpus.

 

[cfvh600]

Gateway p965 board will not support it. There are some boards with p965 chipsets that unoffically support 1333 fsb and 45nm's. But dont count on a oem board to have bios updates for them.

I would bet that board woudnt even run the e6*50 series of cpus.

The E7300 has a FSB of 1066 but it doesn't mean that it would work in the motherboard.

 

[someguy7]

Yeah you're right on the e7300. My fault

 

[ivanhoefb]

I have a 2 year old Gateway GM5266e PC. Is an Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 2.66ghz Wolfdale CPU compatible with its motherboard? It previously had an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 2.13ghz 65nm Conroe CPU.

These are the components:
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1009208/1009208cl3.shtml

This is the motherboard (refer to specs and product views please):
http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Intel2/4006135R/4006135Rnv.shtml

Thanks a lot in advance.

I also have a GM5266e which came with an E6400, and upgraded to a E7500, but its running slower than the original cpu. Did you have any luck upgrading your system?

Ivan

 

[iam2thecrowe]

an e7300 isnt even worth getting over an e6300, not enough performance increase to see much of a difference imo.