Motherboards that work with Kentsfield

by Wesley Fink on 9/29/2006 9:00 AM EST
Comments Locked

18 Comments

Back to Article

  • Rys - Monday, October 2, 2006 - link

    As subject!
  • ket777 - Saturday, October 21, 2006 - link

    Strangely, article didn't mention any Intel-made motherboards...

    Or Intel is not considered anymore as a big motherboard supplier
    (compared to Abit, ECS etc..)?
  • ejv - Sunday, October 1, 2006 - link

    I'm very surprised that even the 945 chipset is supported, so problably my ConroeXFire-eSATAII is supported.
  • Madellga - Saturday, September 30, 2006 - link

    I would be very disappointed with Gigabyte says otherwise....Rev. 2 boards 2 months after release for a CPU that was on the roadmap? Bitte my....

    Same goes for DS4, it's not written on the box but come on, all Asus from the same range do support it. It should be the same for the all new P965 mobos.
  • Madellga - Friday, October 13, 2006 - link

    Just saw on Gigabyte's website, the DQ6/DS4/DS3 all support Quad Core with F6 bios or higher !!
  • Heidfirst - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    "Biostar has advised that the only model they will have in production that supports Intel Core 2 Quad will be the TForce P965. Production of that model has been delayed"
    strange as the Tforce 965 is available in Europe ...
  • pygo - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    Any chance on giving Shuttle a call to see if they plan for Quad support with there newly released SD37P2 that runs a 975x chipset? I realize Shuttle buyers only represent a small group of users but many of us would love to know.

    Thanks
  • yyrkoon - Saturday, September 30, 2006 - link

    You probably could call them yourself, would be a good indication if they have good phone skills . . .
  • Hulk - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    Or will XP Home work?
  • Missing Ghost - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    Yes XP home will work. The license works with the amount of sockets, not the amount of cores. Home is okay for anything that fits in a single socket.
  • Imaginer - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    Will it be supported with the RD600?
  • bob661 - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    quote:

    Will it be supported with the RD600?
    Reading skills are lacking with this one.
  • MIDIman - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    Any chances for Via chipsets, such as ASRock 775Dual-VSTA?
  • Wesley Fink - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    We have requested Kentsfield compatibility information from Asrock. Since Kentsfield is a high-end chip, it did not even consider that someone might want to use it on a very low-end board. When we get an answer we will add the information to the comments or the article.
  • bob661 - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    Soooo only Intel chipsets are compatible with Kentsfield? No Nvidia or ATI?
  • Wesley Fink - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    The ATI chipset for Intel is still not a production model. When and if it appears, we will be able to answer questions about Kentsfield compatibility. Current nVidia chipsets did not appear on any lists of current models that work with Kentsfield. We suspect the upcoming revision to the nVidia Intel chipset will support the quad core processor.
  • bob661 - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    Thanks Wesley. I'll wait for the Nvidia info.
  • Kougar - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link

    ...That Abit didn't get back to you. They've been touting the AW9D series as Kentsfield compatible since their launch. Surprised to see my Gigabyte DS3 made that list though.

Log in

Don't have an account? Sign up now