Sources among mainboard manufacturers said today that Intel will be replacing the existing revision of the i865P and i865PE chipsets with a new one that will not allow turning on the Performance Accelerating Technology, a very proprietary feature of Intel Canterwood also known as i875P core-logic.
Earlier this year almost all mainboard makers positioning their products for the retail market and hardware enthusiasts started to switch on Intel’s PAT on i865P and i865PE-based mainboards, causing sales of i875P chipsets to slump. In order to rebound sales of the higher-end desktop chipset, Intel plans to introduce a special revision of Springdale core-logic with hardware modification that does not allow setting the more aggressive transactions between memory and core-logic, the conception of Intel’s Performance Accelerating Technology.
Just after the new revision of Springdale makes it to the market, sales of the i875P will go upwards rapidly, Intel seems to believe.
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Well,looks like intell is flexing its mucels again,and I just got an ASUS/P4P800 and I thought this would be the fastest chip set out there,man was I wrong,I have 4 machins to compair Asus A7N8X Deluxe,P4P800,&DFI's new 400A.
AND A Toshiba 7220CTe PORTEGE lap top with 40Gig harddrive 256Megs ram.AND MY LAP TOP IS THE FASTEST OUT OF THEM ALL!!!!!!!!
AND STILL HAS THE BEST POWER TO BUCK
[Posted by: FallOut | Date: 07/25/03 03:53:17 PM]
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[Posted by: Sorry | Date: 07/27/03 10:49:04 AM]
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It has nothing to do with Intel being worried that the chipset will not run stably, and one might say "They're worried about sells of i875P slumping!" Well that's probably not true either.
Think about it... you're putting a chipset out with your brandname on it, you've worked hard to get it stable, you've worked hard to design something that is fast and efficient. Suddenly mainboard makers are putting that efficiency at risk! And who gets the blame if something fails? NOT THEM. Intel does. Intel could care less what YOU do with your stuff, in fact a lot of guys at Intel overclock their own stuff, but when it goes out from the distributor already altered... that could cause huge problems. If we're angry at anyone it should be the mainboard manufacturers.
[Posted by: Aidrius | Date: 07/27/03 10:49:24 AM]
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Thing is, I don't believe mobo manufacturers enable it by default. That would be too risky and would give the motherboard manufacturer a bad name if its board was unstable and a comparative 865 board was not. Give intel a bad name? Well, since its board doesn't allow for PAT enabling then it would be perfectly stable as a reference comparison.
No, this is in part intel flexing its muscles, and in part it wanting to increase 875 sales. They ARE slumping, and it wants to use whatever means possible to increase them. This perhaps would have not been a problem had motherboard manufacturers simply allowed for PAT to be enabled in the BIOS and not blatantly advertised the feature on their boxes.
[Posted by: cV | Date: 07/28/03 11:31:12 AM]
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Boards with the 875 chipset are already too pricey. This is just a move by Intel to drive motherboard prices up.
865PE chipsets should remain with PAT enabled.
[Posted by: Arlen Carlson | Date: 08/02/03 06:27:41 AM]
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