Motherboard compatibility with E3 1235L v5

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mrnike

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Sep 7, 2020
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Hi guys,

Looking for a board for my Xeon E3 1235L v5, i stumbled upon the MSI IPC MS-98E2-C236 which is just perfect for my needs. The webpage mentions that it's compatible with
7th/6th Gen Intel® Desktop Kaby Lake/ Skylake Xeon/i7/i5/ i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Series Processor
without specifying whether it's a Skylake E3-12xx v5 or v6. I'm confused because other manufacturers did mention the v.

1) Given that this board uses a C236 chip and a 1151 Socket, can i confidently assume that it will be 100% compatible with my Xeon E3 v5 as well? In other words, are boards ment for E3 12xx v6 as well 100% backward compatible with v5 ?

2) The documentation states that the supported CPU frequency is 2.3GHz - 4.0GHz, but the minimal frequency of my cpu is only 2.0GHz. Should i be worried about it ?

Thanks in Advance.

Nico
 

mrnike

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Sep 7, 2020
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Thanks Netzwerk101.
And what about the mobo min frequency ? Does it mean than my cpu won't run at less than 2.3 Ghz ?