Latest Cheap but best motherboards for Intel penryn , wolfdale and AMD phenom!

Asrock is one of the world's cheapest motherboard manufacturers at excellent quality.Many of us wonder how these guys can sell their boards for very less money and also offerring so many cross compatibilities like both ddr and ddr 2 support ,ddr2 and ddr3 support,amd 754 = 939 support , am2 and am2+ support.They are awarded almost by every benchmarking sites.But Asrock is not moving very well in countries like india since ASUS dominates the whole market .However there are lot of confusion regarding the motherboard list which supports both Yorlfield and Wolfdale.Note that you might select a boar dwhich supports both, that would help you upgrade to quadcore in futire if you are aboutr to purchase Wolfdale,the 45 nm core 2 duo.The following list will be greatly helpfull to everyone.In the list below you can find cheapest motherboards supporting Yorkfield(the 45nm quadcore).Chipset name , model , pcb version and bios version is mentioned one by one.

Chipset Model
PCB Version
BIOS Version

Intel P354Core1600P35-WiFi+
All
All

Intel P354Core1600P35-WiFi
All
All

Intel P354Core1600Twins-P35D

All
All

Intel P354Core1600Twins-P35

All
All

Intel P31 / G314Core1333-eSATA2

All
P1.10

Intel P31 / G314Core1333-GLAN

All
All

Intel P31 / G314Core1333-GLAN R2.0

All
P1.10

Intel P31 / G314Core1333-GLAN/M

All
All

Intel P9654Core1333-Viiv

All

P1.40

NVIDIA nForce 680i SLIPenryn1600SLIX3-WiFi

All

All

NVIDIA 650iSLIPenryn1600SLI-110dB

All
All

ATI RS6004Core1333-FullHD

1.03

P1.50


In the following list you can find wolfdale supported boards.

ChipsetModel
PCB version
Bios version

Intel P354Core1600P35-WiFi+

All

All

Intel P354Core1600P35-WiFi

All

All

Intel P354Core1600Twins-P35D

All

All

Intel P354Core1600Twins-P35

All
All

Intel P31 / G314Core1333-eSATA2

All

P1.20

Intel P31 / G314Core1333-GLAN

All

All

Intel P31 / G314Core1333-GLAN R2.0

All

P1.10

Intel P31 / G314Core1333-GLAN/M

All

All

Intel P9654Core1333-Viiv

All

P1.40

Intel 945P / 945GConRoe1333-eSATA2

All

P1.50

Intel 945GC A2ConRoe1333-1394

All

P1.40

Intel 945GC A2Wolfdale1333-GLAN

All

All

Intel 945GC A2Wolfdale1333-GLAN/M

All

P1.10

Intel 945GC A2Wolfdale1333-GLAN/M2

All

All

Intel 945GC A2Wolfdale1333-DVI

All

All

Intel 945GC A2ConRoe1333-DVI/H R2.0

All

P2.00

Intel 945GC A2ConRoe1333-DVI/H

All

P2.00

Intel 945GC A2Wolfdale1333-D667 R2.0

All

P1.20

Intel 945GC A2Wolfdale1333-D667

AllAllIntel 945GC A2ConRoe1333-D667 R2.0

All
P1.60

Intel 945GC A2ConRoe1333-D667 R1.0

All

P1.60

Intel 945GC A22Core1333DVI-2.66G

All

P1.20

Intel 945GC A22Core1333-2.66G

All

P1.10

Intel 945GC A2P4FSB1333-650

All

P1.10

NVIDIA nForce 680i SLIPenryn1600SLIX3-WiFi

All

All

NVIDIA 650iSLIPenryn1600SLI-110dB

All

All

ATI RS6004Core1333-FullHD

1.03

P1.60

Please note that some boards which needs bios update is mentioned above with the required bios version.In case your board doesnot supports your new cpu, please update the bios.This would work 100%.You need not panic.