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Boards with Penryn support out of the box?

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SnakeChomp

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I'm looking at building a new system and would like to start off with a Penryn (E8x00) based chip. I'm considering which motherboard to get, but need one that supports the chip out of the box, as I do not have any other intel chips laying about that I can use to boot and flash the BIOS of an older board (P35, nv600 series).

Are my only choices to look at an X38 or nv700 series board, or do some P35 based boards actually ship with Penryn support?
 
There are several other threads with almost the exact same title, I believe..

Anyway, as far as I know, the Gigabyte P35 boards that are Revision 2.1 (in my case, the "E" in GA-EP35-DS3P signified it was a 2.1 Revision) comes with the correct BIOS to support Wolfdales out of the box. There are a few others, but I don't use them so I can't vouch for them.
 
Apologies for (clearly) not searching hard enough. At the time I was searching for E8400 support instead of penryn support, but during the last moments of making my post, I switched from using E8400 to saying Penryn and didn't think to search again using that term.

Aynway, thanks for the tip, this board looks like it will fit the bill perfectly.
 
Don't feel too bad, I'm glad to help.

While I normally recommend this mobo as it works great, depending on what you do with your PC, it may serve you well to check out the Gigabyte DPC latency thread a few topics down from here. Some mobos have it worse than others, although Gigabyte says they are working hard and are confident of getting a fix out soon. I'm personally going to withhold actually recommending the Gigabyte boards until this issue gets resolved as I don't want to advise users to get something that may cause great stress trying to figure out what's wrong with it.

If you try some combination of the search terms 'wolfdale' 'e8400' '45nm' 'support' and 'out of the box' I'm sure you'll get the other boards that have been said to support these CPUs out of the box.
 
abit's IP35 series should all support Penryn out of the box (unless it has been lying around on a shelf for over 6 months, so buy from a vendor with reasonable turnover).
 
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