Motherboard Compatibility for Wolfdale and Yorkfield Processors

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• nowayout99 - Sunday, November 25, 2007 - link

  The popular Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L board is Yorkfield-friendly with the F6 update.

• mbf - Monday, November 19, 2007 - link

  ...changed its mind about support for Penryn processors on i975X-based boards. As the newly revised list at http://event.asus.com/mb/45nm/">http://event.asus.com/mb/45nm/ shows there is now not a single i975X-based board on that list. Very strange when an even more aging chipset like the i945GC at least still supports the dual-core (Wolfdale) models. Strange stuff indeed...

• papi4baby - Thursday, November 15, 2007 - link

  Thanks.

• MichaelD - Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - link

  I have a Gigabyte P965-DS3 Rev1.0. Any word on Yorkfield compatibility?

• CZroe - Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - link

  As is stands, I'm most interested in the Asus P5N32-SLI PLUS. It was made as a cheaper alternative to the P5N32-SLI and is superior because it uses all solid caps and remains feature-identical with the 680i board. The interesting part is that it is actually a combination of a 650i and an AMD chipset to get 2x16 PRG slots and more. This is why I am extremely curious to know if it supportes these next-gen CPUs. It is often incorrectly called a 680i board or a 650i board, so Asus had to come up with their own chpset name for it on the website (though no one seems to have gone along).
  
  Please ask and update because it's popular in high-end systems. Also, it is the cheapest board I could find with DTS Connect, so I'm sure a lot of mid-range HTPC buyers snapped it up too and they would like to know.

• MAValpha - Monday, October 29, 2007 - link

  Wait, so abit is updating their 945G board, but not their once-flagship AB9 Pro or QuadGT? I'll be more than a little surprised if the VRM isn't compatible, as 1333FSB support certainly isn't the issue here...
  
  And more disappointing, DFI isn't doing anything with the RD600-based ICFX3200-T2R/G! Is this board just being swept under the rug as a costly mistake?

• 8KCABrett - Monday, April 7, 2008 - link

  Actually, Abit does now have a beta BIOS which supports the 45nm CPUs out for a few more of their P965 boards, including the AB9 QuadGT.
  
  Here is a thread on the subject in the ABIT forums:
  
  http://forum.uabit.com/showthread.php?t=136523">http://forum.uabit.com/showthread.php?t=136523
  
  Here is the BIOS download post: http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=122393">http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=122393
  

• Lord 666 - Saturday, September 20, 2008 - link

  Took the plunge and tried installing a Q9550 into my Abit AB9 Quad GT. First tried the BIOS 17 that was on their Tawain site, but it was not marked beta. Watched the bios with the E6600 in board over the weekend, found it to be stable so I moved forward with installing the new CPU into an existing Vista Ultimate 32bit build.
  
  While the CPU was functional and noticeably faster than the E6600 that was in previously, there were random application errors during bootup and while idle. Right after bootup, there were application failures tied into Windows Media Center. After selecting a previously known working file with Windows Media Player, it would play the first second and then crash the application. WMC wasn't able to access live TV anymore because it stated my dinky USB TV tuner was not found (but saw it within device manager)
  
  I wiped Vista and went to XP64 and have not had these issues... but that the same time don't have WMC and other XP 64bit issues.
  
  Lesson learned is I should have stuck with the Q6600 with this board. In the process of finding a suitable board for the Q9550 and going to eventually pair the still rock solid QuadGT with a new Q6600.

• Calin - Monday, October 29, 2007 - link

  There was a time when only VIA had support in chipset for the fastest FSB from Intel (the 133MHz front side bus P3 chipsets)

• CZroe - Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - link

  I dunno... Weren't there even 440BX boards with 133FSB? I think you are talking about UDMA133/EIDE133/ATA133. That was not an official standard and IBM refusted to make drives supporting it. When IBM sold the division to Hitachi and nVidia nodded with UDMA133 on the nForce, we finally got UDMA133 Deskstar HDDs. ;)