Comparative tests of chipsets for Intel's CPUs

While choosing a motherboard, many of the readers proceeded from their own knowledge and experience, advice from friends, from conferences, and our comparative tests. Normally, comparative tests cover 10-15 motherboards, which is rather hard to perceive. Therefore, we made the task of choosing a motherboard easier and compiled a reference material on the chipsets. In particular, today we are reviewing chipsets for the Core architecture processors.
We have repeatedly mentioned advantages of these CPUs. So we are not dwelling at them and just briefly note their very high performance level at very low power consumption. We are not including all the known chipsets for Intel products but rather stop at those used in the manufacture of motherboards for Core 2 Duo.
It should be noted here that all the motherboard of the previous generation are incompatible to new processors (although are of LGA775 Socket). And it is neither the developers nor chipsets that are to blame for that, because the motherboards had been developed before the Core 2 Duo specifications were received. The power supply module of these motherboards does not allow using Conroe processors (a module meeting the VRM 11 specification requirements is needed). Many of the previous-generation boards built on i975X and NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition, as well as i915/925X, i945/i955X fall within this category.
For now, there exist motherboards with support for Core 2 Duo based on Intel 975X and P965 chipsets, as well as NVIDIA nForce 570/590 SLI IE and nForce 650i/680i SLI

Just my quick comment is that you can see that nForce chipset has really matured, and is able to overclock like Intel-chipset motherboards


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