Anyone have any experience installing an engineering sample CPU?
I'm thinking about purchasing an older xeon I've seen on ebay going very cheap and I'm just trying to cover all my bases. In the description it says that it is recommended to inform them of the motherboard and BIOS version before buying to confirm compatibility, which is fine.
Does anyone know if upon installation that I would have to play with the BIOS in order get it to recognised the model of the CPU, from my understand ES cpus are missing some ID codes because they are not final production. Or would the BIOS automatically recognise it regardless of its type?
Thnx.
I'm thinking about purchasing an older xeon I've seen on ebay going very cheap and I'm just trying to cover all my bases. In the description it says that it is recommended to inform them of the motherboard and BIOS version before buying to confirm compatibility, which is fine.
Does anyone know if upon installation that I would have to play with the BIOS in order get it to recognised the model of the CPU, from my understand ES cpus are missing some ID codes because they are not final production. Or would the BIOS automatically recognise it regardless of its type?
Thnx.