Springdale/Canterwood Prescott incompatibility "confirmed" by Inquirer

[brettjrob]

The quotes were included since nothing coming from The Inquirer can be taken 100% seriously.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10862

We also saw a slide confirmsing 11 new instructions, an 800 MHz FSB mPGA478 package, 1MB of L2 cache, hyper threading enhancements, and that it used Netburst marchitecture. We also saw a picture of what appears to be the Prescott core.

Aside from this, Intel is ready for announcement of this CPU in Q4 and a new revision of Canterwood and Springdale boards 1.5 will be ready then, while those currently available won't work because of voltage specification and requirements, as first revealed in the INQ.

 

[Bad Dude]

If this is true then it sucks. Maybe I should hold off on buying a new motherboard now.

 

[frobnitz]

Why is this such a big deal? At a 100W of heat dissipation, I doubt the Prescott is going to be a good overclocker. By the time that part gets cheap to bring it into the range for the overclocking community, Intel will probably have gone to a different core rev that reduces the heat dissipation by quite a bit (otherwise watercooling is going to go mainstream real fast). I hate to think about how loud a 100W load aircooling system is going to be! Remember the T-breds? The B core ran a LOT cooler than the A core.

When the wattage drops the CPU's may well end up working on our 875/865 boards in any case. Of course no one can say for sure since we don't know what the Prescott "B" core is going to need...

Frob

 

[boyRacer]

So its safe to say then that the Prescott is the Pentium5? or the later versions of it.

 

[Bad Dude]

I am not worry about the heat dissapation but whether or not it will support it.

 

[mchammer187]

just got a springdale and i dont care because i dont want a crappy 478 pin prescott anyway



<--------- gonna wait for the real deal