Which motherboards support the Intel Kentsfield?

Posted on Tuesday, October 03 2006 @ 0:38 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

AnandTech takes a look at which motherboards currently support the Intel quad-core Kentsfield processor.

Lately the introduction of every new Intel Socket 775 processor has required a new round of motherboards. With Kentsfield scheduled for a November release, a question on the minds of many readers is whether Kentsfield will work in the current Socket 775 favorites. Will a BIOS upgrade provide the support needed for Kentsfield or will we need new board upgrades to accommodate the new quad-core processor?

We asked Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, ECS, DFI, Abit, and Biostar which of their boards would support Kentsfield, and which BIOS revision was required for that support. We received replies from everyone except Abit, but DFI said it would be a few days until they could provide this information.

Check it out over here.

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