Intel Pentium D 820 Incompatible w/ Third Party Chipsets

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Overclockers looking to buy an inexpensive Intel Pentium D 820 processor won't be too happy when they find out that many nVIDIA chipset boards don't work properly with the processor.

Intel Pentium D processor model 820 may not be compatible with at least some of the chipsets by third party designers, according to ASUS, NVIDIA and X-bit labs performance testing experience. The lowest-speed grade dual-core processor from Intel does not work properly on some of NVIDIA nForce4 Intel Edition-based mainboards, it emerged.

“Yes, ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe motherboard does [support Pentium D 820 processor], but the Intel Pentium D 820 processor works only in single-core mode due to chipset limitation.,” claimed a statement over ASUSTeK Computer technology support web-site, which has been removed after the weekend.

NVIDIA’s spokesperson confirmed that the company had scrapped support for Intel Pentium D processor 820, which works at 2.80GHz, on its chipsets citing low demand for such chip from enthusiasts. NVIDIA’s nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipsets will only support Intel dual-core processors at 3.0GHz and above, including Intel Pentium D and Intel Pentium Extreme Edition products.

“We decided not to support the lowest performance 2.80GHz dual-core at this point. We expect very limited demand in the enthusiast and gaming segment for this SKU and we decided not to spend engineering resources qualifying it for now… We support 3.0GHz and above,” said Bryan Del Rizzo.

It is pretty crazy how 3GHz and above Dual Core is supported, but for some reason below 3GHz there is something up with the chipsets to make it not stable... Strange indeed.

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just give it some juice and it will pop over 2.8