Springdale PE chipset

How will the Springdale/Canterwood chips effect the P4G8X or P4PE boards?

Will it be possible to upgrade these boards and will it have an effect on their performances?

Is there a new board on the horizon for ASUS to get the most benefit from a 800 fsb CPU?

Are the present boards upgradeable to these new chips?

Thanks for your insight

The old chipsets will obviously become obsolete. Official support for 800Mhz FSB cpu's is unlikely with the current 533Mhz boards, but it may still be possible to run an 800Mhz CPU on such a board by overclocking its FSB to 200Mhz. You'll need to run the memory as high of course, but 400Mhz DDR modules are available these days, so that should not pose the biggest problem.
All this isn't particularly advantageous though, as you'll be running the cpu at default speed, while already stressing the max out of your mainboard. Also note that 200Mhz FSB is shady territory and can be thought of only with AGP/PCI locks in place.

FIZZ3

Sounds like it's better to wait for compliant bds for the Springdale chips.

Have you heard if ASUS or others are coming out with bds that can get above the 200 fsb?

Schneman said:

FIZZ3

Sounds like it's better to wait for compliant bds for the Springdale chips.

Have you heard if ASUS or others are coming out with bds that can get above the 200 fsb?

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They will when Intel introduces the new chips. Unofficially, many boards are theoretically capable of 200Mhz operation, but this is all unofficial (overclocking), which I think you don't want.

Schneman said:

FIZZ3

Sounds like it's better to wait for compliant bds for the Springdale chips.

Have you heard if ASUS or others are coming out with bds that can get above the 200 fsb?

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Apparently, SiS's latest chipset (655) for the P4 can unofficially support dual channel DDR400: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1781