Spring dale and Centerwood compatible with Prescott?

[Serp86]

Are the Centerwood and Springdale motherbords compatible with the prescott?

I don't feel like waiting for so long to get a prescott, and maybe ill get a springdale motherboard, and a 2.5ghz cpu, and get the prescott when it is launched.

What do you think?

 

[techfuzz]

IIRC, I read that the first steppings of prescott chips are supposed to be compatible with the Canterwood and Springdale motherboards. Although they indicated that future steppings it may change.

techfuzz

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: techfuzz
IIRC, I read that the first steppings of prescott chips are supposed to be compatible with the Canterwood and Springdale motherboards. Although they indicated that future steppings it may change.

techfuzz

I don't think it's the stepping, rather that later Prescotts will use a new socket type. The first ones will work IIRC.

 

[techfuzz]

Originally posted by: jaeger66
I don't think it's the stepping, rather that later Prescotts will use a new socket type. The first ones will work IIRC.

I think you're right.. it was the socket that was due to change. Something about a T and doing away with the pins entirely?

techfuzz

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: techfuzz

I think you're right.. it was the socket that was due to change. Something about a T and doing away with the pins entirely?

techfuzz

Somethng like that, a pinless package. Not sure of the details though.

 

[Serp86]

Wasnt a pinless package supposed to be introduced with the Tejas?

I remember reading a pdf file somewhere here about that, don't know where though.

 

[techfuzz]

Found this news article at The Register

Looks like we're all kind of off... Go read about the upcoming processors and chipsets due from Intel later next year, 2004.

techfuzz