Any amd socket 939 board will take 939 dual core right?

[themaidenmaniac]

Or wrong

Kev

[scrandman]

Or wrong.

Some of the earlier boards require a BIOS update. Others simply do not support it (although a minority). The very first boards based on the VIA KT890 chipset did not. VIA updated the chipset, so that later boards could though.

[nvening]

Afaik all nforce4 boards do at lest with a bios update in some places.

[scrandman]

Yes - all nForce4 S939 boards will support X2, VIA is a different story-

This one definately does not:

http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1...76&modelmenu=1
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...A8V-E%20Deluxe

They then went on to produce an SE version which does:

http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1...76&modelmenu=1
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...A8V-E%20Deluxe

Can't say for sure on the ULi & SiS chipsets.

[FLuff_eei]

Anything you buy today new will indeed.

Fluff_eei

[themaidenmaniac]

ta guys!