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Hi Guys

I was wondering, does the Asus Striker extreme, or will it, support the new Quad cores coming out soon, Penrynn (65nm), or will it not. Also would you say it is better than the Bad Axe 2 motherboard from Intel. And are there any other motherboards that are really good, or the best, out there. I am kinda looking to buy one soon.
 
The Asus striker extreme supports Penrynn after you've flashed the BIOS with the latest version (So i read) No quad core support though
http://event.asus.com/mb/45nm/

I'd say it's better then the Intel Bad Axe.

Very good Intel motherboards with P35 chipset:
Asus P5K Premium, Asus P5K3 Deluxe, Asus P5K WS, Gigabyte GA-P35T-DQ6, MSI P35 Platinum
 
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kortel said:
Hi Guys

I was wondering, does the Asus Striker extreme, or will it, support the new Quad cores coming out soon, Penrynn (65nm), or will it not. Also would you say it is better than the Bad Axe 2 motherboard from Intel. And are there any other motherboards that are really good, or the best, out there. I am kinda looking to buy one soon.
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There have been two conflicting stories about the 6xxi chipset and their support for the 45nm CPUs (the latest seems to be that 45nm dual core CPUs will be supported but not the 45nm quad core CPUs) so it's difficult to say for sure... I'm very happy with the Striker Extreme, personally. I wouldn't know if it's the best motherboard out there, but it's the best one I've ever owned :)
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
There have been two conflicting stories about the 6xxi chipset and their support for the 45nm CPUs (the latest seems to be that 45nm dual core CPUs will be supported but not the 45nm quad core CPUs) so it's difficult to say for sure... I'm very happy with the Striker Extreme, personally. I wouldn't know if it's the best motherboard out there, but it's the best one I've ever owned :)
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The very latest is that is won't support any 45nm chips anymore, since Intel made some last minute changes to the chips.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4698&Itemid=1

The OP actually asked about new 65nm quads, which it will support, but you would want 45nm. (I wasn't really aware of new 65nm chips :eek:)
 
65nm are the current chips. The next gen that it doesn't support(quad wise) is the 45nm chips.(penryn,yorkfield,wolfdale). Whatever you want to call it :p
 
So what did you mean Kortel, were you just confusing 65nm with 45nm? The Penryn chips are 45nm like Zenbaas says. (That's what was confusing me :p)

Basically the anwer is no for any of the new chips. I assume it's the same with the 650i chipsets? I'll probably be getting one of those, so I don't really expect 45nm support but it would be nice.
 
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