P4C800-E New CPU Support

[AristoV300]

The 1021 BIOS for the above board provides support for the 479 chips now, if you have an adapter. I am curious too see how a Pentium M would overclock and perform on this board, especially with 8X AGP support and all the other goodies missing from the 479 boards???

 

[ts3433]

AnandTech recently did an article about the 479 adapter with P-Ms. I'd probably keep your 3.2E@3.8.

 

[AristoV300]

Yeah I just read the review thanks.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: ts3433
AnandTech recently did an article about the 479 adapter with P-Ms. I'd probably keep your 3.2E@3.8.

I don't understand why the reviewer gave such a negative overall assessment..? the the PM seemed to do really well against chips costing twice the price. what am I missing?

 

[AristoV300]

I agree. In multitasking it left alot to be desired, but I was quite impressed with the gaming performance. Also that overclock was with some crappy @$$ cooling. I would be willing to say you get alot more out of the PM, especially the lower multi ones. I don't know about twice the price, the 2.1 400mhz is $645:disgust: The 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 are in the $200's. Supposedly in July the prices on the PM's are dropping alot.