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Penryn Question

BlackDragon

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Hi, i was reading about how Penryn CPUs are being released around Q4.

Do these new CPUs require that you have DDR3 or can i stick to my old DDR2?

If its the former i guess ill be buying a new CPU, motherboard and RAM!
 
Apparently they will work with 650i sometimes 680i definitely and P965 never. 650 will probably require BIOS update. IIRC. Bare in mind though that P35 will also support Wolfdale though and I don't know if that also applies to 680i.
 
Dark_Angel said:
Sorry to hi-jack the OP's thread, but will they also work with current motherboards ok, I have the P5N-E SLI 650i...
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Fugger at XS has said that 680i will support the desktop variants of Penryn, Wolfdale and Yorkfield. Not sure about 650i boards.


Though it does seem at the moment that the P35 and X38 boards are going to be best board for these CPUs and seen as the X38 seems to support both ATI Crossfire and Nvidia SLI with PCI-E 2.0 its looking great.
 
Azza said:
Fugger at XS has said that 680i will support the desktop variants of Penryn, Wolfdale and Yorkfield. Not sure about 650i boards.


Though it does seem at the moment that the P35 and X38 boards are going to be best board for these CPUs and seen as the X38 seems to support both ATI Crossfire and Nvidia SLI with PCI-E 2.0 its looking great.
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h00r4h! i knew i got this 680i board for some reason :D
 
Azza said:
Though it does seem at the moment that the P35 and X38 boards are going to be best board for these CPUs and seen as the X38 seems to support both ATI Crossfire and Nvidia SLI with PCI-E 2.0 its looking great.
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Didn't nvidia turn down that claim?

It's only foxconn that said they might support sli through their own version of drivers, even then the description is very vague.
 
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