Yorkfield (45nm) quad-core mobo advice

[snowhiker]

A friend went ahead and bought:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115034

Not from newegg.com but a local shop (PC Club). Yeah, he should have bought a 2.4 GHz and overclock, etc, etc.

Anyways......he has an EVGA 680i chipset motherboard that is NOT COMPATIBLE with the new 45nm Yorkfield CPUs and he can't return CPU without a 15% restocking fee.


Sooooo I need to recommend a good motherboard for him, probably a Gigabyte one.

Requirements/system it will run:
- Support for Yorkfield 45nm quad core CPU.
- 64-bit Vista Home Premium.
- 4 memory slots (he'll want to upgrade to 4x2=8GB ram).
- NO SLI/Crossfire needed.

Thank You so Much.

 

[ddrueding]

Don't have one yet, but I suspect my next motherboard will be the GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6. No need for DDR3, it doesn't seem to bring anything to the party but higher prices and less overclocking potential. It seems that you may need a BIOS update, but that shouldn't be a problem if you still have the old CPU sitting around.

 

[Bozo]

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L ???

Bozo :joker:

 

[LiamC]

Is 400 (1600) FSB support important? Only the X48 chipset and its derivatives (not yet released) will officially support 1600FSB.

NVIDIAs 680i seems to have some issues, though this appears more an implementation issue rather than chipset limitations.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3138
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3150


HTH