Yorkfield and Older Chipsets

[AkumaX]

How compatible/likely? etc...

 

[MichaelD]

The P35 supports Yorkfield; some motherboards may need a BIOS update, but they are supported. P965 chipsets will most likely not be supporting Yorkfield.

See this AT motherboard article on Intel 45nm Processor Support.

We will be testing their P965 motherboards shortly to see if the latest revision 3 boards work properly or not. However, since the P965 chipset does not officially support the new 45nm processors, there is no guarantee of compatibility

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[AkumaX]

darn... so much for my hoped ez-cpu-swap

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
darn... so much for my hoped ez-cpu-swap

Heh, welcome to the crowd; I'm right there with you. I have a Gigabyte P965-DS3 Rev1.0 and it's dead AFA CPU upgrades go.

I just bought an Abit IP35-Pro today; but ironically not for the CPU upgrade. I needed another PCI-E 16x slot for a RAID card.

While some of the "older boards" (funny how a two year old board is OLD...) can't upgrade to the latest processors, a C2D or C2Q running at 3GHz+ is far from a slow machine. There's lots of life left in the "old stuff."

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Well Asus has already released a bios for my P965 board(P5B-e) that supports QX9650 so I assume it will also support lower end yorkies as well.

The only problem is with the low multi's 7.5 on the 9300 and 8 on the 9450, I could never reach the overclock potential of these chips (over 4ghz) with this board as it will require well over 500mhz FSB and this board hits its limit right around 500mhz. If the price for the 9450 ever becomes reasonable I may get one, as 8x500 4ghz would probably be doable.

 

[jonmcc33]

How is the P35 an older chipset? The 965 sure but P35???