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Intel's New Pentium 4 Chipsets Reviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the revealing-reviewing dept.

RainDog writes "Intel has released its 845PE and GE chipsets for the Pentium 4 processor, and reviews are hitting the web. The new chipsets officially support DDR333, but are stuck with AGP 4X and ATA/100 support. What's most interesting about these new chipsets is that they're faster than VIA and SiS' latest Pentium 4 offerings, both of which support faster AGP 8X and ATA/133 graphics and disk interfaces. As if that weren't enough, Intel's new "Blue Mountain" motherboard comes on a black PCB with all sorts of multimedia ports and memory timing options. Not bad for the traditionally conservative Intel."

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  1. Decline of the hardware reviews (and Slashdot) by tshoppa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Again, the most prominent, first-mentioned, feature of the Intel reference motherboard is its... Black Color.

    1. Re:Decline of the hardware reviews (and Slashdot) by varslot · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course this is important; on Slashdot in particular. It makes those transparent plexi-class casings all that more attractive. If I could only get glow-in-the-dark IDE cables I'd be set.

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    2. Re:Decline of the hardware reviews (and Slashdot) by Jonny+Balls · · Score: 2, Funny

      Black is the new black

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  2. Looks Great, Less Thrashing by SEWilco · · Score: 4, Funny
    As if that weren't enough, Intel's new "Blue Mountain" motherboard comes on a black PCB...

    Wow. I eagerly await a candy-striped peppermint-flavored board, which surely will give better performance and more bang for the buck.

  3. great by tps12 · · Score: 4, Funny

    845PE, GE, DDR333, AGP 8X, ATA/133, "Blue Mountain", black PCB (finally, someone for black kids to look up to...).

    Can someone cut through this heap of jargon and marketroid buzzwordsmithy and tell me how in the name of RMS this affects me, the Linux power user? Does it bother anyone that in three months we'll be reading an identical story about 928BE, TL, MOK444, LBJ 9X, PCP/420, "Grassy Knoll", and yellow LSD? When does it end, and why do we care?

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  4. Re:tisk tisk by stud9920 · · Score: 2, Funny
    This is the same seniro
    Wow ! Three syllables (actually there are four in sce-na-ri-o). Three distinct spelling errors. D1d U go 2 skool with Prince ?
  5. Re:Once again. by after5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And best of all, even if you "missed" a story the editors will repost it a couple of days later.

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