honestly yes i want to upgrade my intel Pentium D to higher one and the closest choose is the core 2 family but i want a processor with the same frequency (not less than 3GHZ) and also the cash may be higher (> 4mb) but the problem is that 1st we should check the compatibility of the mother to work with the processor cause the soket and the 65 and 45 nm tech and that's make me ask is it matter the tech of the processor if they have the smae soket size (LGA 775) ?
and if iam going to upgrade the mother 1st i want to get the
GA-EP41-UD3L (rev. 1.0)
but it says about processor
"Supports 45nm Intel® Core 2 multi-core processors with FSB 1333 MHz"
"Support for an Intel® Core 2 Extreme processor/ Intel® Core 2 Quad processor/Intel® Core 2 Duo processor/ Intel® Pentium® processor/Intel®®processor in the LGA775 package"
but no thing about intel pentium D processors then dose it not support them or just enough to say " Intel® Pentium® processor" ?
Your Intel D CPU should work with this one, it has the same socket type and supports almost all Intel CPUs up to 1333Mhz FSB..... anything faster than the 1333 FSB would be a 1366 socket or 1156......