Asus uses a regular P3 850 in one of its laptops...wtf?! Look at this...

[zippy]

Check out, "ASUS notebook uses conventional Pentium 3 / Ken 8:13am GMT" on their page

This too...more pics!

I have a few questions...

1. WTF is that black dealie on the processor?
2. If you look carefully at the biggest pic of the processor it says it is 1.2V on it- yet it isn't the mobile one? WTF is it? They say it's conventional...where can we buy it!? That would rock for a silent system (aherm Leo V ).
3. How isn't it too hot with no heatsink even? Or is the black dealie doing something?

Discuss...

 

[Finality]

That's unusual. I wonder how come it doesn't need a heatsink. What a 0.13 Micron chip like what Intel did with there earlier mobile P3s?

I thought that 0.13 wasn't for another few months.

 

[Big Lar]

Well// I only looked at the pics, but with my failing eyes, it could have been 1.7 Maybe there is a heatsink on the upper side of the notebook, that presses down on the cpu when closed???? Just my Pathetic .02

 

[Sephy]

Dunno about anything else, but that's definitely a 1.2

 

[Floyd]

I work in development with laptops from quite a few different manufacturers, and it's not uncommon to find standard fcPGA processors, particularly in the lower-end models. And yes, there is definitely a heatsink which cools the processor, they've simply removed it to display the processor. And finally, the black material covering the processor die is a thermal interface...a compliant foil substance.

Best regards,
Floyd

 

[zippy]

ttt

 

[sharkeeper]

Well I can tell you this: It's out of warranty!

Cheers!

 

[sony]

Hello! everybody
I am the editor from PC News Hong Kong
I saw that there are some replies of our Asus Notebook news.
it's really use the Desktop Intel Pentium III 850MHz CPU on the Notebook

if you don't believe it
you can go to our web site see again, we prepared more photo for you

one more want to tell yours, that CPU VCore voltage is 1.7V, same as the desktop one

PC News HK

 

[AndyHui]

Just reading the Chinese...it's definitely 1.70 volts.

Here's my translation:

ASUS's notebooks have been on the market for a while, and recently ASUS have (or will have) released a new special Notebook L8400K model. Always in the past, notebooks have used a special mobile version of the CPU. But the Notebook L8400K does not follow this tradition, and uses the Desktop version of the FC-PGA Pentium III 850. Voltage is 1.7 volts, with 128MB of RAM, 10GB HDD, 14.1" TFT LCD display, 8MB of video ram, TV-Out, modem, LAN, internal CDROM (or DVD) and 3.5" floppy etc. Price is $14,500 (CD-ROM)/$15,600 (DVD-ROM). Compared to using a mobile CPU, this is much cheaper.

If you are using the desktop FC-PGA version of the P3-850, then the US listed price is $193, while the BGA2 version is $580, nearly 3x the price.

 

[zippy]

Oh, cool. Wow...1.7V?! That must got through the notebook's battery pretty friggin fast! Not to mention the amount of heat produced- how do they keep it cool so well with only a thin heatsink (it can't be too tall!)?!

EDIT: Now that I look at the site again I see how they keep it cool- that's pretty neat. A lil copper dealie with a fan off to the side attached to the copper piece.

 

[AndyHui]

That black thing is not a heatsink....it's thermal interface material. What it probably does it come in contact with the case and pretty much uses the ENTIRE outer surface of the laptop as one massive heat spreader.

[Edit]: Ah....I see now. Ducted fan with copper heatsink.

Translation again:

<< Looks like some of our friends from overseas do not believe ASUS have used a Desktop Pentium III in their notebook, we have prepared even more pictures of the 8400K for everyone to enjoy. >>

Thanks Sony....

 

[zippy]

AndyHui, look again at that site- there is a heatsink and fan. The heatsink looks copper- kind of like something that would be used for water cooling- and one side of it is open and a fan mounted on the side that most likely sucks the hot air out of it. It wouldn't make sense to blow air into it.