Will conroe based boards ever.....

[Kinnetic]

I was hoping I might be able to run SLI eventually with a conroe cpu compatible board.

Will this ever happen?

 

[JAG87]

give it a few weeks.

If the nforce 590 does not oc well im gonna be mighty pissed.

 

[NoStateofMind]

I've heard rumers that the 590 chipset board won't overclock well do to heat issues. But I will say, we havent any proof of that. What abotu the AM2 boards with the 590? Are they mini heaters? That may shed some light on whether the Intel counter part will be the same.

 

[dandragonrage]

Intel will probably be hotter due to the inclusion of a memory controller. Though I'm not too familiar with the AMD nf5 boards.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: dandragonrage
Intel will probably be hotter due to the inclusion of a memory controller. Though I'm not too familiar with the AMD nf5 boards.

Ummm, if I'm thinking correctly, the 590 would have to have a memory controller too right?

 

[JAG87]

yea, hes mixed up. Any board for intel CPUs needs to have a controller.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

Originally posted by: dandragonrage
Intel will probably be hotter due to the inclusion of a memory controller. Though I'm not too familiar with the AMD nf5 boards.

Ummm, if I'm thinking correctly, the 590 would have to have a memory controller too right?

I think he means the Intel version of the nVidia chipset.

I doubt it runs hot enough that it hurts overclocking much at all, or actually is really hardly an issue, especially when you look at the massive heatsinks they're putting all over the place on quite a few boards (a lot of the popular ones). If you look at Anandtech's reviews of nForce590 boards it doesn't appear to hurt their overclocking any more than with other chipsets.

 

[Kinnetic]

To clarify, I want to run a Core 2 Duo cpu on an nForce motherboard. I want to do this beacause I would like to also run SLI for a couple 7900GT's.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

Originally posted by: dandragonrage
Intel will probably be hotter due to the inclusion of a memory controller. Though I'm not too familiar with the AMD nf5 boards.

Ummm, if I'm thinking correctly, the 590 would have to have a memory controller too right?

I think he means the Intel version of the nVidia chipset.

I doubt it runs hot enough that it hurts overclocking much at all, or actually is really hardly an issue, especially when you look at the massive heatsinks they're putting all over the place on quite a few boards (a lot of the popular ones). If you look at Anandtech's reviews of nForce590 boards it doesn't appear to hurt their overclocking any more than with other chipsets.

Yes I know he wants an INtel 590 board. But Intel doesnt have an on-die memory controller like AMD in thier processors. So the memory controller has to be on the 590 SLI chip....correct?

 

[dandragonrage]

Yes, I meant the Intel ver of nf5, sorry for any confusion

 

[The Pentium Guy]

If you look at all the cooling systems nowadays, ABIT's Q-Otes, ASUS's passive heatpipe cooling, etc, on the northbridge I don't think there'll be that much of a heat issue....

 

[Zap]

Look at the latest AT article.

 

[MaxDepth]

Is there a list of Conroe mobos somewhere?
I am looking for something to compete in the HTPC arena. People are starting to get board issues the MSI now.

 

[supremelaw]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2786

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797


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