Woodcrest question..

[Vercetti786]

Will I be able to slap a Woodcrest into the following motherboard?

"ASUS® P5W DH DELUXE: DDR2, x16 slot, 975X chipset, 2 PCI"

I want to upgrade to Woodcrest in about a year or so and I'm wondering if I'll have to change motherboard.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Vercetti786
Will I be able to slap a Woodcrest into the following motherboard?

"ASUS® P5W DH DELUXE: DDR2, x16 slot, 975X chipset, 2 PCI"

I want to upgrade to Woodcrest in about a year or so and I'm wondering if I'll have to change motherboard.

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe Woodcrest has a different pin count, consistent with Xeon line of processors. But I think in a years time, you won't be looking at Woodcrest. You'll be looking at Kentsfield or better. Not definite, but if your 975 board supports Core 2 Duo, it may very well support Kentsfield. I have seen 965 boards that support Core 2 Duo which people over at Xtreme Systems have dropped ES Kentsfields into and they worked.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Vercetti786
Will I be able to slap a Woodcrest into the following motherboard?

"ASUS® P5W DH DELUXE: DDR2, x16 slot, 975X chipset, 2 PCI"

I want to upgrade to Woodcrest in about a year or so and I'm wondering if I'll have to change motherboard.

Nope, Woodcrest is a diffferant socket, but Conroe is exactly the same architecture..only real differance is 1333FSB on woodcrest, and woodcrest has 2 unit support, which you couldn't use on a single socket board anyway..

 

[tylerw13]

woodcrest is using socket 771 so you will not be able to use the p5wdl you need to use a motherboard that supports dual or single socket 771 processors