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dbarrow
01-29-2007, 09:55 AM
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2914

Date: January 26th, 2007

test results from 12 different yet not so different P965 motherboards and find a few products that stood out from the rest...

...Probably the most important factor to date has been compatibility. The initial P965 BIOS releases suffered from memory timing and voltage issues, and there were also general performance drawbacks in the areas of overclocking and memory throughput. The majority of these issues have been solved as the BIOS and motherboard designs have matured. The memory suppliers have also worked closely with the motherboard suppliers to ensure the issues we witnessed at launch with memory modules not booting at 1.8V or having SPD settings that greatly affected timings are basically a thing of the past. ...

*And a lot of other interesting information about this chipset

jcampi
01-29-2007, 06:22 PM
That article says the same thing I've seen at several other posts recently. The Intel 965 chipset was riddled with Bios issues, which impacted memory compatibility. This looks like it has been solved with the newer Bios updates. I wonder where this will leave the older 945 chipset?