EmperorJimbobIIIThanks so much! I had just never seen a c232 chips etc before so I got confused haha , so I could easily chuck in a 6700k into this mobo
techwizWell, colour me wrong. I only made my previous comment as I current run a similar MSI motherboard with a Xeon, which had specs saying i5 and i7 CPUs were incompatible. If Gigabyte is right, then great. However, I'd be very careful with buying this motherboard on the assumption an i7 will work in it.
McMoronIf that board was a server board then they would not work with any consumer CPUs at all, this includes all Pentium, Celeron and Core series CPUs. This is to prevent consumers from putting much more powerful enterprise grade Xeons on cheaper consumer motherboards and prevent enterprise from bulk purchasing much cheaper prosumer high end CPUs for enterprise environments.
techwizMy bad, I was thinking E5 and E7. I forgot about the baby Xeons. Thanks for correcting me.
The sad thing is that I just built a bunch of Haswell E3 machines a couple years ago.