Quote the raven.....
yup, the springdales and canterwood chipsets are comming out the springdales will have 800Mhz ( quad pumped ) FSB and will have ddr2 ram which is faster then ddr and dcddr. and i think they are comming out late spring early summer!
Actually, Springdale and Canterwood will use DDR-I (DDR266, DDR333 or DDR400), the next major chipset after that will use DDR-II - that'll be called Grantsdale.
Expect Springdale/Canterwood to be released at the end of May (if things stay on schedule). Looks like Springdale is going to be nice and fast...........
SPECint_base2000 (integer)
Pentium 4, 3.06GHz, 533MHz, HT, 845GE, DDR 333
Pentium 4, 3.06Ghz, 533MHz, HT, Springdale and DDR 333 - 4% Faster
Pentium 4, 3GHz, 800MHz, HT, Springdale and DDR 400 - 9% Faster
SPECfp_base2000 (floating point)
Pentium 4, 3.06GHz, 533MHz, HT, 845GE, DDR 333
Pentium 4, 3.06Ghz, 533MHz, HT, Springdale and DDR 333 - 26% Faster
Pentium 4, 3GHz, 800MHz, HT, Springdale and DDR 400 - 36% Faster
(Those are Intel's performance figures BTW.)
Other notable Springdale/Canterwood features are.....
- Dual-channel DDR333 and DDR400 support.
- Vastly improved Intel Extreme Graphics (onboard VGA) - 64% faster than i845G in Quake3 and 96% faster in 3DMark2001SE. But since i845G graphics sucked so much it's not that much better!!
- Prescott and Northwood 800FSB support.
- Canterwood has turbo mode for reduced memory latency.
- A brand new memory controller based on the Brookdale-G (i845G) memory controller.
- ICH5 for native SATA and software RAID (through IAA).
- A dedicated channel (called CSA - Communications Streaming Architecture) to the MCH for Gigabit ethernet.
- Hub Link 2.0 for 1.06GB/s bandwidth between MCH and ICH.
Looks pretty good to me!!