[Solved] Dell E510 Motherboard based on a retail board?

Some manufacturer motherboards are based on board available retail. I have a Dell e510 and was wondering if anyone knows if the e510 board is based of a retail board as well. Dell calls this board a RD203 KF623 Featuring Intel 945G Chipset LGA775. Reason is I'm looking for a compatible bios. These are two simple questions if you know the answer great and thank you. If you don't do not worry about it.

I've owned one Dell computer and it was my first and last. And the reason for that was I found it too difficult to upgrade, from formating the HD and installing a newer OS, to removing the motherboard and installing it to a standard case, as well as the BIOS issues, etc...
Listen to Mongox, if it's DELL use only DELL bios or you may corrupt the BIOS chip which will more trouble to fix than what the motherboard is worth.

Damn if I could only find someone else who had tried this before me.

Yeah I've tried google for about an hour... Any suggestions on search phrase?

I'm sorry the edit feature doesn't work... I can download bios for intel's 945 boards here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Default.aspx?lang=eng

The question now becomes which matches best...

Don't worry about a possible brick I can always get a new case, processor, and motherboard if need be.

That didn't work mongox but thanks. I have narrowed it down to two boards that it could be or at least the closest thing to my current board.

http://www.intel.com/support/mothe [...] p/D945PAW/
http://www.intel.com/support/mothe [...] p/d945gbo/

The question is which the choose and will it work? If only I could get a bios string from my phoenix bios.

Right now I'm looking into whether my board has a BIOS recovery mode.

I wanted to see if I could get my PentiumD to run 3.0Ghz for fun basically and if I ruined my motherboard I'd just get a new one with a case (atx... btx... you know). But I've been thinking about it a bit more logically lately. The chances of it working are slim to none and I have a friend that could use this computer and would be very gratful to have it. So I'm starting think maybe I should just go ahead and by the new case board and processor and give away my e510 case, board, and processor. As much fun as it would be the blow up the Mobo it could probably serve my friend for many more years...

If you're serious about experimenting and OC'ing your Pentium D, there are plenty of used brand name motherboards on eBay for $10 that would be more suited for your experiment. However, with the combo of an old CPU and old mobo and extra voltages (those pathways could be hanging on for dear life by a very thin thread literally) , you risk blowing up both.

I was looking at Athlon II X2 w/ either a gigabyte or asus board. I have to get a case too (btx) and I'm hoping to stay under 200 dollars.

Well I meant that I have a BTX case so I'd have to get a new one. Come to think of it though my friend has an ATX case... I could trade her my e510 for the case that would be a significant upgrade for her as I'm not even sure her processor is a single core 2ghz.

If you want to get started cheap on learning OC'ing, get a used Intel e5200 and an Asus P45 or G31 mobo. Should be around $$65 - $75 total for both items on eBay.

Hey, good luck with the new build!

When I bought back in August, the Phenom II x2 BE was the same $102 at Newegg, but I was able to get a combo deal on it with the same Gigabyte board that took $30 off - so basically changed the CPU price to $72 or a bit less than the Athlon.

I'm sure you'll love the system and exploring the capabilities.