Which Asus motherboards support Core 2 Duo + SLI

[jellystones]

I managed to stumble across this link

http://zeus.asus.com/hq/products1.aspx?l1=3&l2=0&l3=0&modelmenu=0&share=txt/core2


It states only the "P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe" supports core 2 duo. Well what about the the non "SE" version?

Also what would stop me from putting the Core 2 Duo into this motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131578
which also supports LGA775 + SLI.

 

[jellystones]

So no one knows the answer?

 

[BobaFettm]

SE only

thats it

 

[illinikevin]

I saw an Asus Nvidia 570 board on tigerdirect as part of a bundle.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2368609&CatId=0

Don't know much about it though.

 

[BarryJohn]

yeh i think the P5N32 is teh only one mate. i was gunna get it but now im gunna wait for 590.

I tihnk most ppl are waiting.
Have a read b4 u go ahead and buy that one. although it is a very good choice, just that most ppl think that these new ones comming out are gunna be worth the wait.

 

[techgeek]

Guru3D reviewed a nVidia reference board using the 590 SLI chipset which has a beta BIOS on it. This would indicate to me that you will see boards from ASUS and GB soon, followed by other manufacturers sometime after these two. It seemed to display as good performance as the Intel chipset boards as far as application software (except some benchmarks which may be explained away by the beta firmware). In gaming of course it kicked a$$ obviously due to SLI. If you can wait a little while longer, these boards should be available soon.

 

[illinikevin]

I have the board yor talking about. Only supports 90nm dual cores and 65nm single cores. It will be a no go on a conroe ore any 9xx series intel chip.

 

[golferadam]

I saw a fellow with this build in his signature:

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - Creative SB X-Fi Platinum
ASUS EAX1900XTX - Mushkin XP2 PC2-6400 2GB - ViewSonic VX922 2MS
150GB WD Raptor 16MB Buffer 10K - OCZ GameXStream 600W - Plextor PX-755SA

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=profile&mode=viewprofile&post_id=1189155

Does that mean the P5WDH supports C2D but not SLI?

 

[illinikevin]

Correct. That board has an Intel chipset. It supports ATI's crossfire not Nvidia SLI.

 

[calyn]

It looks like both the P5NSLI and P5N32 SLI SE support SLI. But neither supports Conroe. The forme does SLI in 8x/8x mode, the latter in 16x/16x mode.

But if you really want SLI with intel and can hold off for a while, I'd suggest waiting for the nForce 5 boards for Conroe, as those two do noet support Conroe.

 

[illinikevin]

The SE version of the P5N32-SLI supports conroe. Check it out here

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1280&l1=3&l2=11&l3=0

I hers at Anand that the 590 boards won't perform much better but will include more features such HD audio and more sata.

 

[billward]

Guru3D reviewed a nVidia reference board using the 590 SLI chipset which has a beta BIOS on it. This would indicate to me that you will see boards from ASUS and GB soon, followed by other manufacturers sometime after these two. It seemed to display as good performance as the Intel chipset boards as far as application software (except some benchmarks which may be explained away by the beta firmware). In gaming of course it kicked a$$ obviously due to SLI. If you can wait a little while longer, these boards should be available soon.

Do you know when they will be available? Within a month, two months?

 

[dozer63]

try this http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
search cpu using "CPU"
Type " Intel core Processor"

 

[techgeek]

This is a guess, but if nVidia has a beta reference board, Asus and GB both aren't far behind as they are nVidia's major launch partners. This to me says it should be available within a month. Nothing in the article said anything about vendors or their release dates, so again this is my guess/opinion. You have to take that for what it's worth (not much on a forum such as this).