AMD Motherboards: Processor Support
by Wesley Fink on June 28, 2005 1:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
AMD Recommended Motherboards for Dual Core
The AMD website has extensive lists of tested and approved motherboards for Athlon 64 processors. A listing on the AMD site is Official support for a CPU as established in AMD testing. AMD's Official list of motherboards supporting x2 processors is pretty short.
AMD AthlonTM 64 4800+
X2 (Socket 939)
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Vendor |
Model |
Revision |
Form Factor |
Chipset |
Key Features |
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2.0 |
ATX |
nVidia nForce4 Ultra |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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1.02 |
ATX |
nVidia nForce4 SLI |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E4 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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2.0 |
ATX |
VIA K8T800 Pro |
· AGP 8X · Cool'n'Quiet · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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1.0 |
ATX |
nVidia nForce4 |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E4 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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1.0 |
ATX |
nVidia nForce4 |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E4 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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1.0 |
ATX |
nVidia nForce4 SLI |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E4 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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1.0 |
ATX |
nVidia nForce4 SLI |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E4 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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1.0 |
ATX |
nVidia nForce4 |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E4 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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1.0 |
uATX |
ATI Radeon Xpress 200 |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · UMA |
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1.0 |
uATX |
nVidia nForce4 |
· Cool'n'Quiet · PCIeTM · Supports up to processor stepping: E3 · Supports up to processor stepping: E4 · Supports up to processor stepping: E6 |
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arswihart - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
actually here's a link to a foreign thread that has links to the new BIOS's:http://www.msi-forum.de/thread.php?threadid=17206&...
Did this completely escape you Anandtech?
Also, I've read the F6 Bios for the Gigabyte K8NS Ultra and the F9 Bios for the K8NSNXP give X2 support. Haven't read any results from them though.
Noubourne - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
Wasn't part of the issue with 4 DIMMS that not only would you be stuck with 2T, but also with DDR333 with all four slots populated?Wasn't part of it also that 2x1GB wouldn't do 1T either? I am fairly certain SD and Venice are both capable of doing 1T with 2x1GB. That is important to mention for people looking at 2GB of RAM, but not necessarily OC.
larson0699 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
"We also had done some testing with the early Winchester and Newcastle chips which were based on the 90nm production process instead of the 130nm process used for clawhammer."Newcastle IS a 130nm part.
"If the BIOS doesn't support rev E (In other words, you may have a good board, but the BIOS is pretty old), you will likely need to install a pre-rev E (AKA-130nm) AMD processor to flash the BIOS."
Misleading. Winchester is also pre-Rev.E and is only 90nm.
And that was from one of their own guys.
#2, don't you fret. The mass of nForce3 owners raises too high a demand for the makers _not_ to do something about it. nForce3 isn't at EOL simply because of PCI-e; what matters is that it's socket 939 (still as much a current platform as nForce4's 939) and they have customers that they don't want to lose.
Viditor - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
The Final Words link in the dropdown menu is broken...it takes you to a search page.arswihart - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
A couple nf3 boards have already made BIOS's available (MSI and Gigabyte), while DFI has promised support on its upcoming nf3 board. Epox support looks likely as well in the near future, as per Epox Tech.This is all based on what I've read, I never tried tracking down any of the actual BIOS files because I don't own an MSI or Gigabyte board. But I've heard they're out there.
matthewfoley - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
BOOOO! No 939 nForce3 x2 compatibility!?!? MSI get off your asses and release a bios. That is rediculous.larry89 - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
^.^ nice