AliveXFire compatibility with Phenom II x4 980

hello all :-)

the CPU Phenom II X4 980
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Phenom%20II%20X4%...
isn't on the ALiveXFire-eSATA2 mainboard's CPU compatibility list:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/ALIVEXFIRE-ESATA2/#CPU

last BIOS version (P4.00) was released in april 2011 and the x4 980 was released in may 2011.

other than the higher clock speed, the x4 980 seems in all points similar to the most powerful CPU on the official list, the x4 965.

so my question is - did anyone try sticking a Phenom II x4 980 on a ALiveXFire-eSATA2 or ALiveXFire-eSATA2 R3.0 board ?
what happened?
works or not?

thanks!

Edited by phenriot - 27 May 2017 at 9:18pm

my son got an athlon II x4 640 at the moment and it's bottlenecking his GPU, GTX 770 in some games, world of tanks being one of these.
I have planned to replace his system next year, but in the meanwhile a 30$ 980 might do the trick, it might yield a 50% or more increase in FPS.

that being said, OCing a 965 might also work, but I am wary of temps, I'll have to replace the fan - then the fan would be worth more than the CPU, lol.

aaaaaaaand.... I might overclock the 980 as well ;-)

I'd really be interested in knowing if a 980 works in this board.

I regret that electronics manufacturers quit updating their bioses and drivers so early, because a lot of the gear still does its job if provided with the right software.
I already had to dump prefectly good gigabit NICs because these Netgear asshats were too lazy to make drivers for windows 10 as well as a couple of WIFI adapters, a scanner, etc.
Some others now have trouble with WoL, grrr...

so... anyone tried the 980 ?


Edited by phenriot - 27 May 2017 at 11:54pm