Intel i5-4690 and Asrock H110 Pro

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AKZeroDelta

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Hi all, I recently bought the asrock h110 BTC+ pro motherboard, and I have an unopened i5-4690 cpu. Could someone tell me if its compatable, I'm really nervous about damaging the pins if it's not. Thank you so much.
 
AKZeroDelta said:
Hi all, I recently bought the asrock h110 BTC+ pro motherboard, and I have an unopened i5-4690 cpu. Could someone tell me if its compatable, I'm really nervous about damaging the pins if it's not. Thank you so much.
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If you need a cheap cpu for this board grab a pentium 4460 from eBay. I'm using it in the same board in my rack.
 
AKZeroDelta said:
Hi all, I recently bought the asrock h110 BTC+ pro motherboard, and I have an unopened i5-4690 cpu. Could someone tell me if its compatable, I'm really nervous about damaging the pins if it's not. Thank you so much.
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Will not work at all together. In fact, the CPU and the socket are completely incompatible with one another. The i5-4690 is too old for the motherboard's socket: It uses LGA 1150, while the H110 motherboard is LGA 1151 - and the two sockets are not compatible, not even physically. You will need a 6000- or 7000-series Intel CPU for that motherboard.

The proper board for the i5-4690 uses an 8- or 9-series Intel chipset, such as an H81 chipset or a Z97 chipset.
 
The i5-7400 can sometimes be found on eBay for OK prices. So that might be a solution for that board.

As for the unopened 4690 CPU, there are still H81 motherboards in stock on web sites like newegg.
 
wandplus said:
The i5-7400 can sometimes be found on eBay for OK prices. So that might be a solution for that board.

As for the unopened 4690 CPU, there are still H81 motherboards in stock on web sites like newegg.
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Looks like he's using it for mining. Not sure how many "good" H81 mining boards there were, nor how they compare to the H110 versions.
 
kirbyrj said:
Looks like he's using it for mining. Not sure how many "good" H81 mining boards there were, nor how they compare to the H110 versions.
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Well, if he's considering a new computer, I just read a HotHardware article that pretty much points to a 6 core with 12 threads when it comes to how many cores you need. So it's possible to sell those things and go with an 11400 or etc.
 
wandplus said:
Well, if he's considering a new computer, I just read a HotHardware article that pretty much points to a 6 core with 12 threads when it comes to how many cores you need. So it's possible to sell those things and go with an 11400 or etc.
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Do you have a link to the article?
 
kirbyrj said:
Ok, but he has a "mining" board with the implication being that he's looking to set up a mining rig. I don't think you need a 6C/12T CPU to mine with. Sure, if he's not mining, then sell the board while it is valuable and get a gaming board.
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My cousin still mines eth on a single core Sempron 145.
 
I don't know if you can make any assumptions about what the op wants to do because this person didn't know that CPU was not compatible with that board.
 
wandplus said:
I don't know if you can make any assumptions about what the op wants to do because this person didn't know that CPU was not compatible with that board.
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I don't know. I can't see why you would pay more for a mining board if you weren't going to use it. I get it not everybody is tech savvy, but it's a pretty fair assumption at this point they are mining if they are going to pay up for a mining board.
 
kirbyrj said:
I don't know. I can't see why you would pay more for a mining board if you weren't going to use it. I get it not everybody is tech savvy, but it's a pretty fair assumption at this point they are mining if they are going to pay up for a mining board.
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thats what i assumed too...
 
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