Qn on socket 965

[penguin1]

eh.. what's the difference between Sockets P965, G965 & Q965? & 975X?

 

[Mex]

Ehh...I think those are actually Intel chipsets for socket 775.

EDIT:http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5155/

 

[Guest]

Yup
G got graphic, P is for profesional and Q is for multimedia or something like that, P is target at Vpro, QandG at ViiV If I remeber correctly

975X is the "performance one" with 2 x16 slots for Corssfire support

 

[penguin1]

eh... so which board is the best if i want to build a gaming rig.

 

[1Tanker]

eh... so which board is the best if i want to build a gaming rig.

I would say the 975x still offers more outright performance than 965, from what i've seen.

 

[penguin1]

Does all the chipset i named in post #1 support conroe?

 

[Frank_M]

Not all, 975 just from revision 304 upwards.

 

[penguin1]

Not all, 975 just from revision 304 upwards.

sorry but i don't understand what u're saying

 

[penguin1]

So the 965 line of chipsets are new releases for Conroe?

 

[penguin1]

but if the 975 is for the enthusiast then why doesn't it support DDR2 800? Are there any reasons? :?

 

[MU_Engineer]

The 975X was released before DDR2-800 RAM became "standardized" and not just overclocker memory. DDR2-667 was the fastest standard DDR2 memory at the time that the 975X was designed, but just as the Rev. E AMD Athlon 64s can support "unofficial" DDR 433, 466, and 500, board makers tweaked the dividers and such to allow DDR2-800 support on the 975X. Also, the 975X was designed for CPUs that had 800 MHz and 1066 MHz FSBs (Pentium 4/D/EE) and even DDR2-667 in dual channel would more than saturate the FSB of the chip. Some extra bandwidth is good because the MCH and ICH do need a little bandwidth for other things like IGP and possibly for a RAID setup. However, the extra bandwidth of DDR2-800 over DDR2-667 would likely be useless to the CPU, like upgrading the Ethernet link to your 10Mbps modem from 100 Mbit to gigabit to try to make your FTP downloads faster. I could understand 10 Mbit to 100 Mbit (DDR2-533 to DDR2-667) to give a little bit of headroom, but the 100 -> 1000 would be wasted.

Intel will release a 985X chipset for the Conroe EE with the 1333 FSB. Yes, the stock 975X does support a 1333 FSB and the rev. 304 Intel "Bad Axe" 975XBX boards will run a Conroe EE for all we know, but the Conroe EE will pull all of the available bandwidth at peak usage and leave none for the other components. Also, it looks bad if the "value" chipset supports better memory than the "performance" one, and the intended audience pays very close attention to that sort of thing. I am betting that the 985X chipset will support DDR2-1066 as it will be the top memory speed when the chipset will be released as DDR2-1066 is being produced in some quantity already and DDR2-1200 is starting to appear.

 

[shinigamiX]

Don't forget 946P/G, the budget chipsets!

 

[penguin1]

Thanks for typing out that whole lot.

Oh sheesh. I hope the 985X boards aren't that expensive. oh, another qn, will the 985X support the normal 'E' series conroe chips? or are they only for the 'X' series?

 

[MU_Engineer]

I wouldn't see why the 985X boards would not support any LGA775 chip that it could supply enough juice to. You can run a cheap Celery in a 975X board, so I wouldn't see why Intel wouldn't let somebody run a standard Conroe in a 985X board.

 

[penguin1]

^ hopefully u're right. because i intend to get a E660 and a 800MHz or 1066MHz ram.