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Will Pentium D work on any 775 Motherboard?

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ShinGouki

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Simple question really, I am mainly an AMD system builder but have been asked to put together a shuttle SFF pc *or possibly Aopen SFF*.

It needs to support the 2.8ghz Pentium D. Now i know that this is an 775 socket processor but I noticed that a lot of the Shuttles that say 775 only utilize regular DDR not DDR2, this made me suspicious as to whether they will support the Pentium D's.

Can someone please enlighten me as to how i can tell which motherboard has full support for a Pentium D and whether I will be fine using any 775 model shuttle to intsall it into.
 
To my knowledge, you shouldn't have any problems.

Unlike on AMD CPUs where the memory controller is built into the the CPU, Intel CPUs have the memory controller on the motherboard itself.
 
Short answer NO, not all LGA775 chips work on all LGA775 boards.

Some of the boards that support the pentium-D 820 don't support both of it's cores either(several NF4 intel edition boards have this limitation). There are actual more boards that support the 9xx series than their are that support the 8xx series(probably due to the fact that 9xx series consumes less power and puts out less heat), and the 9xx series runs much cooler, so that should also be taken in to cosideration. A SFF PC with a pentium-d is practicaly a nightmare, because of the heat they put out, so you'll definatly have to go with a 9xx series. Check the motherboard manufactures website for CPU suppot, they all have a page that lists CPU support(although some have better listings than others).
 
I was going through the ASROCK site looking for a motherboard and stumbled apon this:

ASROCK 775i65PE

Its a LGA775, Intel 865PE chipset board that has earlier revisions that do not support Intel dual core.


Mike
 
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products...cm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=94326

I found this Aopen, it seems to support pretty high prescotts, looking at most manufacturers websites a lot of their information seems old and it makes it really hard to know if it will support the processor or not. I'm being asked to get as low a price as possible but i don't want to to risk it not working as i need to build as many as 8 of these. Can someone tell me if this is suitable... for the 2.8ghz Pentium D
 
Originally posted by: ShinGouki
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products...cm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=94326

I found this Aopen, it seems to support pretty high prescotts, looking at most manufacturers websites a lot of their information seems old and it makes it really hard to know if it will support the processor or not. I'm being asked to get as low a price as possible but i don't want to to risk it not working as i need to build as many as 8 of these. Can someone tell me if this is suitable... for the 2.8ghz Pentium D
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Nope, doesn't support pentium-D's.
 
Pentium Ds are only supported by 945 and higher chipsets. Nforce 4s do not support both cores on a Pentium D 820, but have no problems with higher models.
 
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Pentium Ds are only supported by 945 and higher chipsets. Nforce 4s do not support both cores on a Pentium D 820, but have no problems with higher models.
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Thats not entirely ture either, my 920 is running on an 865 chipset..P5P800 SE, the 8xx series doesn't work on that board, but the 9xx series is supported by several boards that don't support the 8xx series.
 
Originally posted by: stevty2889
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Pentium Ds are only supported by 945 and higher chipsets. Nforce 4s do not support both cores on a Pentium D 820, but have no problems with higher models.
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Thats not entirely ture either, my 920 is running on an 865 chipset..P5P800 SE, the 8xx series doesn't work on that board, but the 9xx series is supported by several boards that don't support the 8xx series.
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That is quite odd. Every review I have read constantly states on and on about how the major downfall of Pentium Ds is that they will not work on the then current chipsets(915 and 925) and how you have to buy a new chipset to run them (945/955).

Does your board officially support those, or does it just happen to work?
 
It officialy supports them. I haven't seen any 915 or 925 boards yet that support them, but several 865 boards that do, but only the 9xx series, and sometimes the B0 revisions of the 8xx series.
 
Originally posted by: stevty2889
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Pentium Ds are only supported by 945 and higher chipsets. Nforce 4s do not support both cores on a Pentium D 820, but have no problems with higher models.
Click to expand...

Thats not entirely ture either, my 920 is running on an 865 chipset..P5P800 SE, the 8xx series doesn't work on that board, but the 9xx series is supported by several boards that don't support the 8xx series.
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Does it support VT?
 
Originally posted by: dguy6789
That is quite odd. Every review I have read constantly states on and on about how the major downfall of Pentium Ds is that they will not work on the then current chipsets
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Aye, I was dumb enough to buy a "New!" server board with a 775 socket E7221 chipset and a 820 to go with it. End result was erratic booting problems and of course only one core working. You have to check that the chipset supports it, and then that the MB supports it. I found a couple of web sites that offered products on the E7221 chipset with Pentium D's -- very interesting, I thought, so I sent emails to the sites asking about how they did it when the chipset didn't support it. They all answered "oops, it's a mistake on the web site; we meant the E7230 chipset".

 
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: stevty2889
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Pentium Ds are only supported by 945 and higher chipsets. Nforce 4s do not support both cores on a Pentium D 820, but have no problems with higher models.
Click to expand...

Thats not entirely ture either, my 920 is running on an 865 chipset..P5P800 SE, the 8xx series doesn't work on that board, but the 9xx series is supported by several boards that don't support the 8xx series.
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Does it support VT?
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Yep, I have it enabled, not that I actualy use it.
 
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