News Intel 1066 925XE boards shown on web

Now you see it, now you don't - The Inq spotted this yesterday, but it's since been removed by Chipzilla's thought police:

INTEL HAS A MATRIX of the desktop boards it has, some of which support the 925XE Express chipset and 1066 system buses.

The PDF, which at press time you can find on Intel's website, includes the D925XECV2 Performance ATX board, which has S-ATA 150, high definition audio and supports 1066, 800, and 533MHz buses.

The Boxed D925XEBC2 is a microATX 925XE Extreme board, also including PCI Express X16 as well as PCIe1 and two PCI slots. The D925XCV is described as part of the Extreme series too but only support 800MHz and 533MHz buses, unlike the former two processors. There's a microATX version of this board as well.

These three boards also support 1394, and have multiple USB 2.0 ports.

Memory types supported for these boards are DDR-2 533/400, with four slots and dual channel, with storage capacities of up to 4GB.

The rest of the boards in the PDF complete the Intel line up for other mobos it supplies for the desktop.

L'inquage

1 GHz FSB? we knew it was going to happen, but just think. 1GHz. [Old Codger]When I wer t'lad, 33Mhz was considered fast...[/Old Codger] And no, it wasn't that long ago!

 

Wow

That's all.

 

Yeah. They ought to be careful as well - you could have some one's eye out going at that speed...

 

me that is fast

sorry GOO, it was meant to be the line from Austin Powers Goldmember.
Didn't think it would be considered a swearword

 

Anyone get the PDF? Id like to know if the rumours that ICH7 will be launched with it are true.

 

Yeah, well I'm overclocked past that anyways. But it's nice to see it as an actual spec

What would be the difference from ICH6 and ICH7? SATA-II support maybe? Maybe extra PCIE lanes, VIA style

 

By hek lad, I'm 21 and I remember the turbo button which brought my PC up to 12Mhz!!!


[/END REMINISS/FEELING OLD]

 

what news?

Ha, I've been running a completely stock computer with a 1GHz frontside bus for the past two months that has been available for over a year. You can even get one with a 1.25 GHz frontside bus. Yeah, it's called a Powermac G5. Wake up and smell your Pentium burning from it's massive heat loss. I congratulate Intel on finally catching up with the rest of the world (IBM/AMD).

Maybe they will release finally release a true 64 bit desktop processor now. Oh how fun it is to watch them struggle now that people finally realized that the megahertz myth really was just that, a myth.

 

Umm its a known fact that macs are behind the times. Isn't it funny how a P4 with a much slower FSB can easily beat the crap out of a mac in performance?

" Wake up and smell your Pentium burning from it's massive heat loss."
Whats that suppose to mean?

"Oh how fun it is to watch them struggle now that people finally realized that the megahertz myth really was just that, a myth"
Dude they stopped using Ghz rating to rate performance a LONG time ago.

 

It wasn't that long ago...

and they're still ramping speeds (or at least, were trying to, until they had to cancel 4.0GHz Prescott). I'm seeing deja vu - anyone remember the end of the Coppermine?

 

Anyone remember 2.4c? 266 (1066) FSB isn't exactly hard to do with it...

I'm pretty sure 4.0 Prescotts are just postponed till early 05, they just haven't said it. Unfortunately the idiots in PR haven't realized that the move to the new socket not being called P5 probably lost them millions I'd almost be surprised if it's not still P4 in 2010...

 

C'mon now, when was the last time you looked at some comparisons?

You should check out the ever reliable Bare Feats comparisons:
http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.html

The P4 gets toasted in all but one of the tests.

And I think you could either say the GHz myth lasted until Intel started praising dual core after AMD and IBM had 64 bit 'low' GHz processors that were ruling or you could say it was when Intel announced that they can't make 4Ghz and have given up on GHz increases for the P4.

 

That FSB isn't that much of a jump up from 800 really.

 

not using an AGP based board, but PEG has problems with nvidia cards causse the HIS bridge craps out sooner than a native solution like ATi.

 

The entire oc community has been running over 1 ghz FSB since the 2.4c was first released like a year ago. 98% of the 2.4c will do at least 3 ghz by upping the fsb. The average was 3.2 ghz. This is not water either this is all air cooling. The rares were hitting 3.6 ghz. Its a sweet spot now because there is much better ram out so you can do this running a 1:1 ratio instead of ddr 333 or ddr 266.

As someone pointed out nice that its official though.