There's good news and more good news in the support category from Intel. First of all, since the motherboard hasn't changed for this new generation of chips, all the top-notch support found for the existing 975X support is still there. On the Intel motherboard I used in this review, all components are supported including ACPI, Ethernet, and on-board audio. All I had to do on my existing board to support Conroe was update my BIOS to the latest released on Intel's website.