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If you update to the latest BIOS (which is version 2809 dated December 13, 2007 at the moment of this writing) your mainboard will support latest and greatest 45nm CPUs from Intel which are about to hit the stores on January 20th — namely Core 2 Duo E8xxx and perhaps even Core 2 Quad E9xxx series.

How do I know that? I have downloaded the BIOS and found a proper microcode update inside with CPUID 10676.

Unfortunately, Intel told me they won't release BIOS update for Penryn support for D975XBX mainboard so I will either have to add it myself if I figure out how, or be forced to change the mainboard. Grrr.