BA
The Old Man's Gonna Roll the Hard Six
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clubs:  | reply to brainwash
Re: First Gaming PC Build
I'd select another motherboard based on the P35 or 780i chipset. The 680i chipset is old and as far as I know, it doesn't support 45nm quad-cores. |
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Konceptz
45nm Here I Come
join:2001-12-22
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| said by BA  :I'd select another motherboard based on the P35 or 780i chipset. The 680i chipset is old and as far as I know, it doesn't support 45nm quad-cores. P33 or P34 680i bios revision will support yorkfields (45nm quads) |
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BA
The Old Man's Gonna Roll the Hard Six
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Vancouver, BC
clubs: | Are you sure?
Yorkfield has been out for four months now. If they haven't supported it by now, I don't think it'll happen.
Today, I even tried to put a QX9650 on a non-reference 680i board - an MSI P6N Diamond. Same result: No POST. |
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Roundel
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clubs: | Newegg states that with a bio revision, these EVGA boards will accept Wolfdales. |
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Dentist
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Waterloo, ON
| said by Roundel :Newegg states that with a bio revision, these EVGA boards will accept Wolfdales. Evga states that the 680i board is not physically capable of supporting 45nm quads due to the architecture of the board. A bios change can't physically alter a board.
I believe only the Asus board which isn't reference design is capable of doing so. A bios change can't physically alter a board.
The 680i's will run the e8550/e8400 duos apparently.
By the time 45nm quads are out, the 790i could be out as well. I'd even question the value of a 45nm quad for a gaming build. An e8500 or a q6600 would be extremely comparable.
That being said all of this is going to be irrelevant when the Intel socket change hits late 2008 early 2009  |
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Konceptz
45nm Here I Come
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Chesterfield, VA
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said by BA :Are you sure? Yorkfield has been out for four months now. If they haven't supported it by now, I don't think it'll happen. Today, I even tried to put a QX9650 on a non-reference 680i board - an MSI P6N Diamond. Same result: No POST. thats what EVGA told my PD dept earlier this month, a future bios revision. the main advantage to the 780i is the 3 PCI-E 2.0 slots. and 45nm support out of the box |
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