E7400 + C90s

Has anyone tried the Core 2 Duo 7xxx series of Intel processors in their Asus C90S? I'm looking at the specs for an LGA775, 1066MHz FSB, 65W Intel C2D 7400 processor, and these are identical to my Core 2 Duo 6xxx currently in my C90S. The only differences seem to be the clock speed, and that the 7400 is on a 45nm process, the L2 cache is only 3MB, and that there is no hardware virtualization support.

Does the latest bios (1002) support these newer CPUs that still maintain the same socket/FSB/wattage as the 6-series C2Ds that the C90s was designed for?

 

I was thinking of getting a e7300 myself but I realised it would not work as my VM C90S does not let me update the bios from the original. If I were you I would wait for the final e7500 to be released in January and then the price of the earlier e7xxx will drop further! The e7300 would be sufficient @ 2.66 Ghtz and 10x multi and would be most likely to work as is similiar to e6700. Use clockgen and you ought to be able to squeeze at least 3.17 ghtz out of it . My reasoning is based on my OC stress testing with my e6600 at 317x4 ie 2.86 it will do more than 6 hours orthos but push fsb even slightly higher over 2.9 and the stress test won't last even tho the temps don't push past 70C. So 10x multi and 45nm ought to get you nicely past 3htz.

So bottomline if you want to OC save money and get e7300, if you don't OC get e7500.

Hope this helps, go for it and good luck to ya!