The declaration of support by the motherboard of new processors already had long time ago been become the ritual, which makes possible to draw the attention of consumers to the appropriate motherboard models - both existing, and new. The company asus similar statements with respect to the support of four core processors kentsfield has already made.
Company MSI showed still more than restraints, after not deciding to declare about the support Of kentsfield at the moment of announcment of processor core 2 Extreme QX6700 (2.66 GHz). Instead of this it waited for past Friday, and at the same time recalled that in the enumeration of motherboards supporting Kentsfield there are two products on the base OF chipsets NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI and nForce 650i SLI. Enumeration proved to be sufficiently modest:
- 975X Platinum powerUp edition (Intel 975X);
- P965 platinum (Intel p965);
- P965 neo2 (Intel p965);
- G965MDH (Intel g965);
- Q965MDO (Intel q965);
- P6N diamond (NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI);
- P6N SLI platinum (NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI).
Since there are no references about the versions BIOS or revisions of those motherboards in this enumeration, we should consider that these motherboards support kentsfield is native. More exactly saying, in the limiting cases it can be required a BIOS update . The motherboard MSI 975X Platinum without the suffix PowerUp edition do not support processors family conroe ; therefore it cannot work, also with processors kentsfield. However, the fresh motherboards of series MSI 975X Platinum already relate to the version powerUp edition, and therefore support Conroe and Kentsfield entirely.
MSI communicates also that it will be able to exceed the plan of motherboard deliveries in 2006. Instead of the planned 18 million pieces it will be able to produce 20 million motherboards.