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Upgrade Ability of the P-M Chips and Boards?

post #1 of 12
3/14/04 at 5:35pm
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I was just wondering if anyone has read or heard any information on whether or not we wil be able to upgrade the P-M chips?

Meaning my M60 I am getting, will it have a MB that is able to accept faster chips then the P-M1.7?

I tried looking around Intel's website, but DANG it is big and confusing!!

Thanks
DeathtoToasters
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post #2 of 12
3/14/04 at 7:28pm
since the Dothans are voltage and pin compatible I dont see why not?
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post #3 of 12
3/14/04 at 8:05pm
Up to 2.0GHz. Dothans after that will require the new chipset with 533MHz FSB.
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post #4 of 12
3/14/04 at 8:10pm
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Originally Posted by deltawalkerl
Up to 2.0GHz. Dothans after that will require the new chipset with 533MHz FSB.
source??
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post #5 of 12
3/14/04 at 8:12pm
Intel Roadmap. It shows all the 400MHz and 533MHz Dothans to be released this year and early into next year. Do a google search, I am sure it will pop out.
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post #6 of 12
3/14/04 at 8:16pm
Here's one source with the roadmap: http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1995
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post #7 of 12
3/16/04 at 4:52am
Man I hope the roadmap is right... 2.0

mmmmmmmmmm....
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post #8 of 12
3/16/04 at 5:36am
whats the performance difference between 1.7 and 2.0 on laptops? i know its a bees dick in desktops but since cpu is rather limited every megahert would be worth its weight in gold
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post #9 of 12
3/16/04 at 5:43am
Well, to put the P-M series in comparison with the P4's, you times their clock speed by 1.6. So a P-M 1.7GHz is ~ P42.72GHz. A P-M 2.0GHz would be > P4 3.2GHz (I say greater than because the new Dothans will have a 2MB cache over the Banias 1MB, meaning by comparison to a P4 they will be faster again)
So the difference between the Banias 1.7GHz and the Dothan 2.0GHz would be equivalent to a 500MHz or more increase in P4 clock speed. Nothing to sneeze at, that's for sure.
stu
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post #10 of 12
3/16/04 at 6:49am
and what about inspiron8600? will it accept dothan chips?
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post #11 of 12
3/16/04 at 8:03am
up to the 2.0 i understand...
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post #12 of 12
3/16/04 at 1:34pm
400Mhz versions of dothans will be excepted the 533mhz versions will not
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