Intel's New Pentium 4 Chipsets Reviewed

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."

Comments

Re:bad news for Linux?

[sirinek]

I'd moderate you (-1, Misguided)

YEARS?! I'll bet you a beer that this motherboard is usable *now* in Linux, or will be with the next 2.4 release (which come out reasonably quickly, say every month or so). What do you think it has that you cant use under Linux today, with the latest 2.4 kernel?

siri

REJOICE in news of black PCBs

[X_Caffeine]

When the first thing a motherboard review cites is how great it looks, you know we've finally crossed the threshold where extra speed is irrelevent. It's time to back off investment in hardware and put that money into developers. The computers are fast enough; now we need software that is more stable, more secure, and most usable.