Alderwood and Nocona Woes; Intel Updates
by Kristopher Kubicki on April 11, 2004 1:08 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
As we continue to receive more information about Alderwood (also known as i925X), we continue to hear disappointing news about the upcoming product launch. Recently, motherboard manufacturers have confirmed with us that 925X will not launch with ECC support as originally planned. We have previously stated that while 915 supports DDR2 and DDR1, 925X supports only DDR2 memory. Thus, the lack of initial ECC support on 925X will only affect DDR2 ECC memory.
From what manufacturers tell us, the B-0 stepping of 925X in production samples currently has an "intermittent issue which occurs under certain boundary conditions." Since the B-1 stepping of 925X have already been taped out, ECC support will be disabled. The next 925X stepping, B-2, will support ECC again but does ship until after the June 15th launch. According to the Intel roadmaps, we should see ECC support for 925X launch around July; although the B-1 chipset will obviously linger around for some time. If ECC is important to you and you aniticipate buying a 925X board, know in advance which stepping the board uses.
Unfortunately, it also seems that Intel's Nocona (800FSB IA-32e processors) have also been delayed until Q3'04. x86-64 computing for Intel will have to wait a few more months it seems.
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Superbike - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
CRAMITPAL is the anti-GUTBwassup4u2 - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
Curt, you're pretty smart. I read on INQ that Mircrosoft is pushing 64bit Windows back to December, at earliest. Interesting...newuser12 - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
why is there no choice "d)" that includes choices b and c? :pretrospooty - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
BTW, Curt... Don't bother with cram. He is either,a) On some payroll that tries to detract people from buying Intel by spreading whatever crap he can on the net.
b) 12 years old
or
c) A complete waste of skin
Curt Oien - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
CRAMITPAL,It seems that most often you know what you are talking about and appear to be quite intelligent. But, you really come off like a disgruntled former employee of Intel or like you lost out on a business deal with them. You really seem bitter. Why let them have that power over you? It's not good for your health and they are not worth it.
"Unfortunately, it also seems that Intel's Nocona (800FSB IA-32e processors) have also been delayed until Q3'04. x86-64 computing for Intel will have to wait a few more months it seems"
Does this mean Microsoft will delay Win XP 64?
retrospooty - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
BAh... The delay won't hurt much, because its not going to be a big seller like the i865/875 was in the first place. No one even cares.Say you have a N/W CPU and i875 chipset and all the fixins. You will need to buy a DDR2 (expensive with no speed benefits yet) a new mobo for socket 775, a new video card (pci express) and of course a new CPU (which will run hotter than hell and give you no performance benefit)
All of these purchases will not get you any better performance, except maybe the video card, but that is not due to PCI express, its due to a new gen of GPU's which can also be bought as AGP.
Delay all they wan't it matters not. The i925 will be Intel's lowest volume since that Rambus crap they used to try and sell us. Possibly lower.
thatsright - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
Ahhh the 'golden days' of the 875 Canterwood launch! Nearly a year ago when ABIT Launched their 875 offering, the IC7, no delays so got my board on time. But then again, there really weren't any new technologies being put on the IC7.What a useless post.
Pandaren - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
I doubt the delay in the 925X will matter all that much - the primary reason being the mediocre performance of first generation DDR2 memory.The 915 chipset is far more important IMO - an inexpensive socket 775/DDR platform will allow a faster transition to PCIe architecture systems.
CRAMITPAL - Sunday, April 11, 2004 - link
Intel has so many problems they don't know rather to sh*t or wind their watch, so they continue to sh*t on their watch and the naive sheep who buy the crap they peddle WITHOUT InHell disclosing design and operational defects.They deserve every bit of misery they encounter on the road of life... Hopefully they are familiar with the axiom "what goes around, comes around".