CeBIT 2002 Part 2 - CPUs, Cooling, Motherboards, & Video
by Tillmann Steinbrecher on March 20, 2002 1:56 AM EST- Posted in
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We also got a shot of the backside of the board, to show the heatsink
mounting. The heatsink is not fixed to the board itself, but to strong metal
plate. This solves the problem of motherboards bending due to the mounting pressure
of the heatsink, which is indeed an issue with P4 boards.
At this CeBIT, we could finally see a wide choice of dual Athlon motherboards, thanks to the availability of the AMD 760MPX chipset.
Intel
Intel presented the Xeon MP (for multiprocessor) on CeBIT. In
contrast to the normal Xeon, which only supports dual CPU configurations, the
Xeon MP allows more than two CPUs to coexist in a system. The maximum clock
speed of the Xeon MP is currently 1.6GHz - since it is still based on the old
"Foster" core, and produced in 0.18µm circuit size. It features an additional
on-die 512KB or 1MB L3 cache.
More relevant for end users is that many motherboard manufacturers presented
motherboards based on the Intel 845 chipset at CeBIT. The 845 is Intel's latest
Pentium 4 chipset ith DDR SDRAM support. Especially interesting is the version
with integrated onboard graphics, the 845G. This is Intel's chipset with the
highest performance 3D features so far - it will be very interesting to see
how this chip set performs compared to ATIs and NVIDIAs new chipsets with onboard
graphics, once the first boards make it to the desks of the reviewers in a couple
of months.
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Dr AB - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
MSI & ASUS - Hmm looks like we are looking at the very start of an interesting era. And yes, Cooler Master. ;)