Xeon's X5687 in the GA-X58A-UD3R v2

[Aussie Allan]

 Been a loooong time since my last post so see if there's some knowledgeable people around with this old mobo query ...

 Have had this X58A-UD3R running in my editing tower for years with a i7-950 (SLACR) water cooled @ 4gig ... got my hands on a Xeon (1366) X5687@3.66 .... thing is I've seen many Xeon Xxxxx chip installs , some supported officially... some not and all seem to be running FF Bios.

 Now I remember seeing someone post the X5687 up and running in a UD3R v2 but buggered if I can find the white paper again ... can anyone confirm the X5687 will run in the quoted MoBo....

 Regards

 Aussie Allan

[shadowsports]

Hi Mate,
Welcome back to the forums.  I see you've helped a lot of people here.  Unfortunately, I don't have much in the way of confirmation, but it does seem like it might be possible with BIOS "FF"

https://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/44425-xeon-x5670-ga-x58a-ud3r-compatible.html

Success here on UD5..

http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1083987_t0lsty_superpi_xeon_x5670_6sec_984ms

Looks like there can be issues setting the multiplier.  RAM might play a role here as well.  You'll probably have to test, but you won't hurt anything and may just be out some thermal compound in the end. 

Cheers