P5ND2-SLI dual core??

gavindo · 17 Mar 2006 at 16:12

I have a P5ND2-SLI and wanted to stick a dual core 2.66 that is on this weeks offer of the week, problem is i no that there was a problem with this board and the 2.8 dual core, i have looked at the website and it isnt much help.

does any one no if it will work :confused:

thanks
gavindo

crayz-walz · 20 Mar 2006 at 13:13

I have the same motherboard . an in my book is say's it will not support the 820 only in singlecore mode., i would not risk anything above this model number..

R B Customs · 20 Mar 2006 at 15:27

the 830, and 840s are fine.
its just the 820s that suffer
i think a lot of nforce boards ahve this problem.
**i THINK** its somethign to dow with the multiplier being lower , and the board only recognises one core. im sure i read that somwhere

use the ASUS CPU support site. the P5ND2 - SLI wont support any of then newer 9XX series chips though !

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

search using motherboard
socket 775
p5nd2-sli

list off all the CPUs it supports

crayz-walz · 20 Mar 2006 at 19:38

So the 805 works with thi board. ?

jeffa123 · 20 Mar 2006 at 22:19

No. but the Asus P5N32-SLI supports both Dual Core and EMT64. It may be more expensive but it has the Intel chipset and Nforce 4 SLI for the Southbridge. I shuld have received mine on Saturday but City-Link *****d up the delivery and OC never advised me until I asked them. Still hopefully I shold have it up and running tommorrow night. At present I am using the P5ND2 SLI and you need extra power to support Dual core CPU's which this doesn't have.