Socket 478 Pentium M, no kidding?

Copper · Post by **Copper** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 3:55 pm

Newegg is selling them:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.a ... rty&DEPA=1

If it's just a typo, Intel is doing it too!

http://processorfinder.intel.com/script ... kgType=ALL

Notice the top three! What's going on here?

Nowhere_man · Post by **Nowhere_man** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:00 pm

the newegg link doesn't work

bcassell · Post by **bcassell** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:02 pm

Your newegg link seems to be broken. Try this one.

To comment: Wow. Those are 90nm Dothans w/ 2mb cache? I thought those were still a ways away. Kinda expensive.... I wonder if there's any chance of these running on normal socket 478 boards.

Bryan

Copper · Post by **Copper** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:05 pm

Sorry about the link.

It's pretty interesting for sure.

Nowhere_man · Post by **Nowhere_man** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:09 pm

What? No SSE3 support, whazup wit dat.

kogi · Post by **kogi** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:21 pm

Woo hoo!
Excellent, much cheaper than a EE.
I wonder if it's just a matter of bios support for the 865/875 boards to support it. I guess than we just need a 'shim' to protect the core and we'll be able to use a normal heatsink.

aidanjm2004 · Post by **aidanjm2004** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:34 pm

kogi wrote:Woo hoo!
Excellent, much cheaper than a EE.
I wonder if it's just a matter of bios support for the 865/875 boards to support it. I guess than we just need a 'shim' to protect the core and we'll be able to use a normal heatsink.

I'd be rather surprised if you could drop a Pentium M them into a Pentium IV motherboard and get it to work...

TomLevy · Post by **TomLevy** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:21 am

It's not a typo. The datasheets indicate that Intel has been planning to offer this package for quite some time.

http://developer.intel.com/design/mobil ... 261203.pdf
http://developer.intel.com/design/mobil ... 218901.pdf

The real question now is "why?".

I can't really imagine these processors being compatible with any of the currently available desktop chipsets.

I'm actually most curious as to what the included HSF looks like.

jojo4u · Post by **jojo4u** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 1:20 am

Intel offers them since a long time, but now they are available. I posted the following thread at november.

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... hlight=478

But, according to 3dcenter.de, the electrical pin-layout differs.
http://www.epiacenter.de/modules.php?na ... &sid=#9476
http://www.tualatin.de/phpbb/viewtopic. ... 3276#93276

All in german....