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Motherboards for Core Duo and Core 2 Duo LV/ULV cpu

Post by quest_for_silence » Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:27 am

Hi all!

Could anyone kindly point me out if there is any motherboard (ATX, mini-ATX, µ-ATX, BTX, ITX, mini-ITX, etc.) which supports the following Intel LV/ULV mobile cpu?

Intel® Core™Duo Mobile (Yonah):

sSpec Number - Processor Number
SL99V - U2500
SL99W - U2400
SL9UR - U2400
SL9JU - L2500
SL8VW - L2400
SL8VX - L2300


Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile (Merom):

sSpec Number - Model name
SLA2V - U7500
SLA2U - U7600
SLA3R - L7500
SLAET - L7500
SL9SM - L7400
SLA3S - L7300
SL9SN - L7200

Thanks for Your thoughtfulness.
Luca
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Post by smilingcrow » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:53 am

As far as I’m aware they are all soldered directly to a motherboard so no joy with any of these. I suggest buying a Core (2) Duo and under-volting and under-clocking it and you’ll find you’ll get the power consumption very low.

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Post by quest_for_silence » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:34 pm

smilingcrow wrote:As far as I’m aware they are all soldered directly to a motherboard so no joy with any of these.
As far as I know it should not be completely true: there's at least one vendor (Radisys) which sells an ITX mobo for these cpus.
smilingcrow wrote:I suggest buying a Core (2) Duo and under-volting and under-clocking it and you’ll find you’ll get the power consumption very low.
What about this "under-volting" practice? Is it safe? Does it allow to reach a thermal dissipation value such as the one of the Celeron M423 (5.5w TDP)?

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Post by quest_for_silence » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:39 pm

UP!

Is there no advice? Nobody knows?

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Post by jaganath » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:07 pm

What about this "under-volting" practice? Is it safe?
yes
Does it allow to reach a thermal dissipation value such as the one of the Celeron M423 (5.5w TDP)?
it's very easy to get less than 5.5W at idle. at full load it will be more difficult, unless you don't require much performance (but if a Celeron M423 is enough for you then I guess you don't require much performance).

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Is there no advice? Nobody knows?
The fact that you don't know what undervolting is suggests to me you haven't looked around SPCR at all. Pretty much every question you can think of has been asked here before, so search and ye shall find. :wink:

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Post by quest_for_silence » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:26 pm

Thank for the link!
jaganath wrote:
quest_for_silence wrote:Is there no advice? Nobody knows?
The fact that you don't know what undervolting is suggests to me you haven't looked around SPCR at all. Pretty much every question you can think of has been asked here before, so search and ye shall find. :wink:
That's right, I have not looked around SPCR very much: anyway, I was referring to my original request about an advice on motherboards for Intel LV/ULV mobile cpu, and not for the under-volting practice (on SPCR there are scarce or no information about Intel ULV mobile on desktop applications).

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Post by bean1975 » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:38 am

That Radisys Endura TP945Gm is indeed a strange beast, it touts
PGA-478 CPU socket and support for BGA-479 CPUs
which means it can indeed be compatible with the LV/ULV chips but where are you going to acquire a BGA chip is beyond me.

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