Northwood v Prescott

[imported_procrastination]

I looked on my MOBO support site to find out what the max CPU I can use, and I found that there are two versions of the SOYO P4I875P. Mine (platinum ed) and some other black v2.0

Supposedly I can support up to a 3.2 but this other version will do a 3.4

Is this common among boards?

What is the difference?

I went to Intels' website to look at the differences between the CPUs' but there is some new naming convention that they are using that goes by model numbers instead of socket names associated with core series.

Why change a good thing?

thanks

later

PRO

 

[AndyHui]

Is this common among boards?

Yes, it is very common for minor variations in supported hardware to exist. Motherboard manufacturers will generally tweak with a board and make changes even after it has entered production.

I went to Intels' website to look at the differences between the CPUs' but there is some new naming convention that they are using that goes by model numbers instead of socket names associated with core series

This is not much different from the Athlon FX processors. However, for the moment, it only affects Socket 775 Pentium 4s, the Dothan Pentium Ms and the new Celeron D processors. Socket 478 processors still use the clock speed naming designation.