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does bios update needed for B85M-D3V to install and use i5 4570 ?

Drakan

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I have 790xt-usb and amd phenom II x4 b55 cpu. Im about to buy i5-4570 and B85M-D3V. As far as I know b85 should support i5-4570 which is a 4th gen intel cpu. But the gigabyte cpu support list confused me. I checked the cpu support list for both 2.0 and 1.1 revisions of B85M-D3V.  For 1.1 revision the cpu support list says Since Bios Version F4 for i5-4570 cpu and also same for others cpus. But I dont know with which bios version B85M-D3V comes with.It may come with an older F2 version. So does that mean B85M-D3V doesnt not support i5-4570 without bios update ? If the answer is "it doesnt support" then what does it support without bios update. I need to know this because if I buy those mobo and cpu I wont be able to use the cpu without bios update and I cant update that bios without a proper cpu. Same situation exists for revision 2.0 also. It needs FC bios version. But it may come with an older version too.
Thx for reading.

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Re: does bios update needed for B85M-D3V to install and use i5 4570 ?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2014, 10:04:46 pm »
You should be fine I did some checking and I read a review on the board back in December. They used a i7-4770k on it.

I don't know why Gigabyte is doing what they are doing with the bios. Lately they have been only showing the latest bios.

The thing is that I should have a choice to what bios I want and not the latest too. Plus that CPU you want to use is about a year old too.
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Re: does bios update needed for B85M-D3V to install and use i5 4570 ?
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2014, 01:35:09 am »
For B85m-d3v revision 2.0 bios version FC is needed which is the oldest bios downloadable at gigabyte's website.There are FD-FE-FF-FG-FH bios versions after FC. I also wanna know if FC is the factory bios version or not. maybe there is an FB version too. For B85m-d3v revision 1.1 bios version F4 is needed which is the latest version. F2 is the oldest bios that is downloadable at gigabyte.com.
Thx for your quick reply btw. But you said "you should be fine". It would be really better if you or some1 can give me a certain answer or explanation about this. Because it will be too bad to see that mobo doesnt support i5-4570 without a bios update.

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Re: does bios update needed for B85M-D3V to install and use i5 4570 ?
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2014, 03:40:21 am »
I can't give you a certain answer to what that board will support. All I can say is who ever you get it from just make sure up front that the board will support the CPU. I did find this http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Gigabyte/GA-B85M-D3V(rev._1.1).html
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