Asus Z8PE-D12 - Manual (Page 31)

ASUS Z8PE-D12 Series 2-11
2.3.1 Installing the CPU
To install a CPU:
1. Locate the CPU socket on the motherboard.
Before installing the CPU, ensure that the socket box is facing toward you and
the load lever is on your left.
2.3 Central Processing Unit (CPU)
The motherboard comes with dual surface mount LGA 1366 Socket designed for
the Intel ® Xeon 5500 series CPU in the Land Grid Array (LGA) package.
• Upon purchase of the motherboard, ensure that the PnP cap is on
the socket and the socket contacts are not bent. Contact your retailer
immediately if the PnP cap is missing, or if you see any damage to the PnP
cap/socket contacts/motherboard components. ASUS shoulders the repair
cost only if the damage is shipment/transit-related.
• Keep the cap after installing the motherboard. ASUS will process Return
Merchandise Authorization (RMA) requests only if the motherboard comes
with the cap on the Socket 1366.
• The product warranty does not cover damage to the socket contacts
resulting from incorrect CPU installation/removal, or misplacement/loss/
incorrect removal of the PnP cap.
• Intel suports and validates dual processor configurations only in which both
processors operate with the same Intel QuickPath Interconnect frequency,
core number, core frequency, power segment, and have the same internal
cache sizes. Mixing componenets operating at different internal clock
frequencies is not supported and will not be validated by Intel. Combining
processors from different power segments is also not supported. While
mixing processors, CPU information in BIOS will only shows the information
of CPU1.