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Are the chips on the P4P800 really 875 (P4C800) chips?

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Propilot

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Read this article. Pretty interesting.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20030603/index.html

Is it saying the chips on the P4P800 are 875 chips and are "artificially degraded in order to fulfill market demand" ?

Quote:

"For Asus the problem remains 865PE chips that don't pass the internal Intel PAT qualification tests through speed binning, and others that are artificially degraded in order to fulfill market demand. Only the latter type is suitable for stable operation after "reactivating" PAT. Asus wants to ensure its success by using strict quality control. That should be well within the realms of consumer trust because of the masterful job that Asus did in investing its own resources in a product in order to offer the customer better value compared to its competitors."
 
I think the early release of P4P800, rev1 and rev2 are using 875 chips but later was changed with 865 chips...
 
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