The last time I read about the PIV, it would only work with the board and
chipset that Intel was releasing at the same time.  It sounded like they
were going to try and prevent other board manufacturers from releasing
chipsets that would work with the PIV as well, but you know how that
political jockeying goes.

The biggest problem I saw with it was the fact that their new chipset would
only work with RAMBUS memory.  That's a whole 'nother HUGE can of worms we
could open, but I won't go there now.  I'm trying to recall this from
memory, so my information may not be totally accurate, but it sounds like
the new Pentium will not work with any of the current motherboard
architectures.

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:23 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Intel Motherboards and Pentium IV Processors


> Good Evening All:
>
> Can anybody that's been keeping up with hardware news in the online rags
> tell me if the soon-to-be-released Pentium IV processor line will be
> supported, through BIOS upgrades, on Intel's desktop board D815EEA
> (incorporating the i815 Solano chipset) ???
>
> I've got a just such a board running an 866 MHz Pentium III right now and
it
> delivers really outstanding performance.  My only concern is for the
future.
> The P3's architecture has pretty much run its course on headroom, and I'd
be
> extremely disappointed to discover in the next six to nine months that my
> machine had no processor upgrade options other than P3s  at 933 MHz and 1
> GHz.
>
> As always, thanks in advance for your help and thoughful comments.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jeffrey Ottie
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