Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

[LoneWolf]

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Dont think so, they never promised it, so we wont get it (even though the first samples of Kentsfield ran on a (modified?) XBX2...

Whats kinda funny is, that - after the release of the DX38BT http://www.intel.com/products/mother...38BT/index.htm - they still managed to fix the C1E-Bug... lol. just like a year after the boards launch.

I agree they never promised it, and I'm not upset --just a hope. ASUS has apparently made one of their 975X boards Penryn-compatible, and since the first samples ran on a modified XBX2 (which, IIRC, was modified prior to the rev. 505 boards currently on the market), it isn't out of the question.

I'm just curious, since "added CPU support" was a listed feature of 2802. What support could be added that wasn't already in BIOS 2797 released on October 9? Quad-core Kentsfield was already supported then, as was all the newer E6x5x processors, as far as I'm aware.

P.S. the first Penryn samples tested were either Penryn (2 cores) or Yorkfield (dual dual cores on the same chip), not Kentsfield --Kentsfield is the current Core2 Quad.