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Just supports Sandy bridgehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge_(microarchitecture)#Desktop_processors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Desktop_platform
Provided your board and BIOS support them.
Ivy Bridge is newer than Sandy Bridge.
Wrong mobo
Wrong mobo
Such a lovely "problem" you have. You have a motherboard, and want a better CPU. Why not?
I killed my old p55A motherboard, but the i7 860 in it still works. Trouble is, I can't find an inexpensive motherboard that still works. Ah, well.
You have the opposite problem, and it's a good one. The Sandy Bridge CPU's were the last to have a soldered IHS. They can be OC'd very high. And CPU's last forever. You ought to be able to find one.
I guess I'm not sure why you would want to cripple an i7 in a lowly H61 board.
By tying that superior processing power to inferior I/O buses, like SATAII and only USB2.0.I fail to see how a non-K i7 would be crippled.
By accidentally touching a 5v line with a 12v wire. Kaput. End of a long friendship. It was my play-with motherboard. It had many a device on it. And to tell you how long it lasted: it was replaced with a Devil's Canyon mb.How do you kill a motherboard?
Been thinking of a xeonI fail to see how a non-K i7 would be crippled.
OP, your choices are i7 2600, 2600K, and 2700k. There are also some Xeon CPUs that would likely work.
By tying that superior processing power to inferior I/O buses, like SATAII and only USB2.0.
Thinking on getting a i5 3550 for itNothing a pair of pci cards couldn't fix.I have a H61 with just usb 2.0 and Sata 3 and i don't feel to bad with my i5 2500 in there.Started off with a i3 2100 and this was the cheapest board around at the time.Gigabyte H61M-HD2.
USB 2.0 works just fine for my keyboard and mouse and gaming headset.Sata 6 would be nice but those write speeds come in handy maybe once in a full moon if your installing a game?Could a game installer even push 300+mbps on writes?
I like to think my set up is humble,i don't worry much about bottlenecks either considering i just went 1440p. I would need a pair of 980 ti and a sli compatible 1155 motherboard before my cpu even ended being a bottleneck for 1440p if even then lol.
By tying that superior processing power to inferior I/O buses, like SATAII and only USB2.0.