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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (152694)	12/17/2001 2:33:50 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

New Pentium 4 Motherboards (HARDWARE) SWEET !!!! By Brian Neal Monday, December 17, 2001 11:17 AM EST According to this report from The Inquirer, ASUS has launched its first i845D motherboard, the P4B266. The new motherboard supports up to 2 GB of PC1600 or PC2100 DDR SDRAM (unbuffered, non-ECC), ATA-133, and on-board audio (C-Media). In related news, ABIT has issued a press release regarding the company's latest SiS645-based motherboard for the Pentium 4, the SD7-533. The SD7-533 features 3 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets, 5 32-bit/33 MHz PCI slots, 1 AGP4x slot, and integrated audio. The motherboard supports up to 3 GB of PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM (unbuffered, non-ECC) or up to 2 GB of unbuffered PC2700 DDR SDRAM. From the press release: ABIT is proud to announce the latest mainboard supporting the Intel Pentium® 4 processor and DDR SDRAM memory. Based on the SiS 645 chipset, ABIT's SD7-533 delivers innovative features to drive your most demanding multimedia applications. Supporting the latest Intel Pentium 4 CPUs, the SD7-533 brings with it support for up to 3GB of PC2100/PC1600 memory or 2Gb of PC2700 DDR memory for a maximum memory bandwidth of 2.7GB/sec. Utilizing the bi-directional SiS MuTIOL® Connect which connects the SiS645 northbridge with the SiS951 southbridge, the SD7-533 is able to offer a system bandwidth of up to 533MB/sec. With increased system bandwidth and extensive memory support, your PC multimedia applications will be more fluid and realistic than ever before. It would appear the number of motherboard choices for Pentium 4 owners is growing. As was noted above, neither of these solutions provides support for ECC memory, meaning users with this requirement will have to look elsewhere. However, these motherboards certainly have a number of other features that make them appealing to users looking to more home-oriented PCs, where the lack of ECC support is unlikely to be noticed. aceshardware.com

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (152694)	12/17/2001 2:37:34 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Wanna, >Remember a week or so ago when one of the AMDroids was trying to prove that Pentium III Coppermine bin splits were at about 866MHz? According to the graph on page 12 of that presentation, it seems that they were recently slightly below 1GHz (with maximum bin split at about 1.1GHz and minimum at about 900MHz). Whatever Advanced Process Control is, it happened to improve bin splits 4% on average and 6% on the minimum. This means that current Coppermine processors at least come out working at 950MHz, with most of them binning out at over 1GHz. You may not have realized you had this confirmation, but thanks for providing it. Elmer also pointed that out, about their trying to downgrade PIII clock freqs. Those 'droids are shameless, aren't they? Tony