In his case not. Well you have to look at everything : how about PWM's ? ( There are reports of people that smoked their 790FX high end boards with the X6 ) Can the Thuban's functions be fully supported (meaning Turbo function) Is it worthwhile to support Thuban on eg DDR2 boards ? Do you allow any Ocing ? Which motherboard do you focus on ? The ones that sold the most ? Or ya current lineup ?
Compare it with running a Gulftown CPU on a cheapo first generation X58 board... it will prolly smoke the board when being OC'ed and gamed upon...
To the above M3N user, he had better directly opted for a newer motherboard. I don't see the point in his demand : he just bought a motherboard (prolly 2nd hand) and now want to put in a latest generation CPU. It would have been better then to make sure everything will run from the start. Thuban was a long time released before he made his purchase. Why didn't he check that. There are a lot of issues with X6 on the latest generation boards, imagine how stressfull it must be for the bios guys to get everything sorted out on older hardware. Do all the other manufacturers boards run 100% fine with X6 ?
There's more to making it compatible then just a bios update !! Some changes are better done hardware wise...
If you want to have full support for all sorts of new CPU's during the coming years on your particular motherboard, then I think ya choice of hobby is a bit wrong... if you want to upgrade, it might be better to change some more parts then just a bios...
Saaya yupp, I agree
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