Penryn and Wolfdale are coming...

[Stoik]

Currently, I, like so many others who read/post on this thread, and in the market for a new motherboard. Don't worry, this is not a "which motherboard should I get" post.

During my research I was under the impression that only the new p35 based boards would be capable of supporting the new 45nm based Penryn and Wolfdale dual core cpu's. However, recently I have heard from a few reputable sources that SOME of the P965 based boards will work with these processors after installing a bios update.
The board I heard this in particular about was the Gigabyte 965P-DS3 (which would be my choice of the 965 bunch, fwiw).

I'm putting this post out there to see if anyone has any insight on this topic. Can it be true that 965 boards will work with the new cpu's? Which ones? Is it even worth it if your board's FSB is only rated at 1066?

Thanks all!

 

[Bateluer]

I hope more than just a few P965 based boards support the 45nm chips. Not sure about all the details of Penryn and Wolfdale because they haven't been released yet, but I hope that other motherboards will simply need a bios flash to support the new chips.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Since you haven't bought a board, just buy a P35 and not deal with the "will it work" ordeal.

 

[Heidfirst]

eVGA supposedly have released a BIOS for their 680i that has penryn support.
As that's a reference mobo then presumably at least the BFG, XFX etc. will too.

If you think when that came out then it's possible that some of the later 965s (Commando, QuadGT, 965-S etc.) may have the necessary VRM too.