More details about VIA C7-M processor

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YKhan said:
Via pulls winner out of wraps
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23788

Has the AMD64, SSE3, and NX-bit support. Supposed to use only 10.1W of
electricity (that's 13.5 millihorsepower for you automotive nuts). :-)

Yousuf Khan

I must be going blind. I've read half a dozen articles like this
Inq one and I *still* have no idea what you can plug this chip
into.

Is it compatible with *anything* out there already or do we have
to wait for proprietary motherboards from Via ?
 
I must be going blind. I've read half a dozen articles like this
Inq one and I *still* have no idea what you can plug this chip
into.

Is it compatible with *anything* out there already or do we have
to wait for proprietary motherboards from Via ?

VIA board. It uses a bus that is similar but apparently incompatible
to the P4 bus. It also looks like they're going to use their own
socket, if they even use sockets at all. It looks like a lot of these
chips are going to be soldered right onto system boards.
 
Tony Hill said:
It looks like a lot of these
chips are going to be soldered right onto system boards.

I think this makes sense. If the VIA C7 will handle your workload
(and for most people it will), then why upgrade the CPU? Most general
users (not the cream-of-the-crop who read this NG, of course :) never
upgrade their CPU except when buying a new computer.

Elite users can keep their sockets. And pay for them. And water-cool
them. ;-)

Has anybody applied a full workload (at the same time) to both
Prescotts in a Pentium D package yet? Was the result a two-alarm or
four-alarm fire? ;-)
 
Has anybody applied a full workload (at the same time) to both
Prescotts in a Pentium D package yet? Was the result a two-alarm or
four-alarm fire? ;-)

No need to worry about temperature, but do keep an eye on performance.
Throttling, and all.

RM
 
Robert Myers said:
No need to worry about temperature, but do keep an eye on performance.
Throttling, and all.

Are you telling me that Pentium Ds cannot really be used to perform
useful work, Robert? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! ;-)
 
Are you telling me that Pentium Ds cannot really be used to perform
useful work, Robert? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! ;-)
Oh, you'll get _some_ useful work out of it, all right, maybe just not
as much as you'd think you'd have a right to expect. I only found one
case of documented throttling

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&star...oQs25Ore0aM-ioJQP&sig2=NSkuSQRUJoQM4-ouRZaGwA

and that was in overclocking, but I'll bet that throttling of Pentium
D's under heavy load isn't a rare occurrence--maybe just hard to
document.

RM
 
Felger said:
I think this makes sense. If the VIA C7 will handle your workload
(and for most people it will), then why upgrade the CPU? Most general
users (not the cream-of-the-crop who read this NG, of course :) never
upgrade their CPU except when buying a new computer.

And even most elites don't bother to upgrade their laptop processors.

Yousuf Khan
 
Felger said:
Has anybody applied a full workload (at the same time) to both
Prescotts in a Pentium D package yet? Was the result a two-alarm or
four-alarm fire? ;-)

THG is doing his semi-annual stress test run. You know the one where he
pits an AMD system up against an Intel, the Intel keeps overheating and
rebooting, the AMD keeps chugging along until Tom goes into the room
and trips over the powercord, etc. You know, *that* standard old test.
:-)

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: Third Update The Dual Core AMD vs.
Intel Stress Test - THG Lab Logbook: Boxed Cooler Exchanged
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050603/index.html

Yousuf Khan
 
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