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Motherboards Asus P8H61-I/RM/SI

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by CrapBag, 1 Feb 2016.

  1. CrapBag

    CrapBag Multimodder

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    Anyone familiar with this board.

    I bought it from ebay as a stop gap for a board that's getting RMA'd.

    It basically seems like the same board as I am returning (P8H61-I) but unfortunately is missing USB 3.

    Does anyone know what the /RM/SI stands for?

    Also the board I am purchasing only has 1 cpu in the support list the 3770, surely it can't only be compatible with 1 cpu, the rev 2.0 has a whole host of cpus listed, is this just a clerical error as its an uncommon board so the documentation hasn't been kept up to scratch?
     
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  2. rollo

    rollo Modder

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    Depends where the board is from, if it's a custom Alienware dell board ect it might be only for the 3770. I've saw it in the past where it took a flash of the bios to sort it out.
     
  3. CrapBag

    CrapBag Multimodder

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    Gulp.

    It only has one bios listed :(.

    Does my mini itx pc nightmare continue......

    The sellers description states it works with a range of I3, 5 and 7 cpus.
     
  4. Vault-Tec

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    I doubt it's from an Alienware. For years they have carried MSI boards. From the R1 Aurora and on (2007) they have had MSI boards and I can vouch that the latest also carries an MSI board.

    http://support.rm.com/ProductInformation.asp?cref=PRD2642916

    Intel® Core i7, Intel® Core i5, Intel® Core i3 and Intel® Pentium processors in an LGA1155 socket up to 95W TDP.
    Support for 2nd Generation SandyBridge and 3rd Generation IvyBridge processors.

    I think you'll be OK :)
     
  5. CrapBag

    CrapBag Multimodder

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    Yeh I think that's the info seller has used that info for his listing and it was just that the asus support page only specified one cpu, which I now can't find.

    Spoke to the seller and apparently its a board from an RM machine (used by schools apparently) so it should be the same as my old one just minus the usb 3 and HDMI.

    Hope its not had too hard a life :(
     
  6. nimbu

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    Should be OK. RM like other pc supplier on occasion have custom bios's but thats usually to put an image on start up. I had a couple of RM MATX Q67 chipset boards. Wont load linux but work find with windows.
     

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