We will talk today about the compatibility theme of 45 nm Intel processor and NVIDIA chipset . In May this year NVIDIA openly declared that all the series nForce 600i was developed with support of Penryn processor.
But here when the first Yorkfield samples appeared many revealed that motherboards based on nForce 680i SLI reference designs have problems with support of such processors. Once again we note that the motherboard Asus Striker Extreme (with an original design) in our laboratory quietly worked with the engineering model Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (3.0 GHz).
Problem with 45 nm processor support by reference motherboards based on chipset NForce 680i SLI appeared on the official EVGA. forum . This company sells motherboards reference design developed by NVIDIA. Represent of EVGA interests said that motherboards based on chipset nForce 680i SLI will have the opportunity to work with dual-core 45 nm processors Wolfdale after BIOS update . Quad 45 nm processors will be supported by future Yorkfield motherboard based on chipset nForce 700i SLI.