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    Socket 478 P4's reached end of road at 3.4G ?

    There is an Asus socket 479 to 478 converter that will allow the use of Pentium M chips of socket 478 boards. The Dothan core should do quite well when coupled with an 865/875 series chipset due to the increased (over 855 mobile) memory and graphics bandwidth...
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    Athlon 64 revision E won't work on some Nforce 3/4 boards!

    I started a thread on this a few days ago. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=1542320 Theinquirer now states that NVidia claims that only BIOS updates are needed (makes sense). Hopefully concerns along these lines can be put to rest now. The potential for...
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    Athlon 64 E revision to require new motherboards?

    The Inquirer is reporting that there have been issues with some NForce 3/4 boards shutting down or refusing to boot when used to demonstrate Revision E (Venice core, I think) CPUs @ CeBIT. AMD says it may be related to "thermal regulation protection" and that various boards may be affected with...