Asus makes a Dothan -->S478 adapter :O

{PMS}fishy · Mar 12, 2005

I have a 1.6 here, someone find me an adaptor. I think I found a new toy.

JCLW · Mar 12, 2005

I don't think it will have any added latency. It should just be like a slot1 <-> s370 "slocket".

elec999 · Mar 12, 2005

What scares me, are the jumpers on the adapter, can we set it to auto. Or is it once you set the jumper to 133, the motherboard will think, its a 133mhz cpu, and you can raise the fsb from the bios or software.
Thanks

SSM 04 RSX · Mar 12, 2005

I wish I could use this with my laptop...

jenko · Mar 12, 2005

Why hasnt anybody mention heat sinks?
Those jumpers and the power plug will hamper things alot.
Even tho the dothan dont need a great heatsink but i guess most 478 755 sink wont fit.

The_man27 · Mar 12, 2005

oh man this is making my mouth water

elec999 · Mar 12, 2005

You could mod the convertor. Solder on the power on the other side of the convertor. Remove the jumpers, and solder directly underneath the convertor. Might make a big heatsink fit.
Thanks

Sjaak · Mar 12, 2005

elec999 said:
You could mod the convertor. Solder on the power on the other side of the convertor. Remove the jumpers, and solder directly underneath the convertor. Might make a big heatsink fit.
Thanks

or just put the head of a prommie straight on it

If ASUS wants this to become popular within the enthousiast market, they may need to rethink their design (as you said)

@md0Cer · Mar 12, 2005

jenko said:
Why hasnt anybody mention heat sinks?
Those jumpers and the power plug will hamper things alot.
Even tho the dothan dont need a great heatsink but i guess most 478 755 sink wont fit.

If the sink is small enough so that the power plug is not underneath it, I don't think there should be any issues at all. I am not too familiar with the newer mounting systems (I still clip it on via the socket lugs of my Socket 462 system), but I beleive with the springs and screws, the heatsink can be higher or lower and still have the same amount of force being applied, if the springs or whatever are long enough.

Again, that is just my thinking, I am not familiar at all with the newer mounting systems.

They should somehow make that power connector extended and have wires from the PCB to the connector so you can connect it outside of the heatsink area then there would be no issues in terms of mounting heatsinks/waterblocks/whatever.

Daewood · Mar 12, 2005

oh man if this ever comes to the market that will be my next upgrade... :drool:

{PMS}fishy · Mar 12, 2005

Sjaak said:
or just put the head of a prommie straight on it

If ASUS wants this to become popular within the enthousiast market, they may need to rethink their design (as you said)

They should just make an 875P based 479 MB.

man_utd · Mar 12, 2005

DFI was supposed to be making a 915p board, haven't heard much about it in a while.

{PMS}fishy · Mar 12, 2005

man_utd said:
DFI was supposed to be making a 915p board, haven't heard much about it in a while.

Ill pass on that. The 915 is one of the worst chipsets Intel has come out with in awhile.

elec999 · Mar 12, 2005

If I were Asus I would release a killer dothan overclocking board. It would produce alot of money for them. Its odd not Dfi has done this.
Thanks

Sjaak · Mar 22, 2005

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=3556795#post3556795

thread with benchmarks done using the adapter

Andor · Mar 21, 2006

So will Yonahs work in this thing?

Sjaak · Mar 21, 2006

Andor said:
So will Yonahs work in this thing?

No, Yonahs are another re-arranged socket type. You need to use the native yonah mobos for there is no adapter.

btw..talk about thread resurrection..lol.

greenmaji · Mar 21, 2006

Didn't they just swap two pins (hardware hack could fix that)
But is there a chipset that will support Yonah on desktop motherboards that this thing would even come close to plugging into?

and WELCOME TO LAST YEAR!!

caater · Mar 22, 2006

did a quick comparison image between dothan and yonah.
so, best you could accomplish, would be killing your yonah. or adapter. or cpu.

greenmaji · Mar 22, 2006

When I said hardware hack I ment re-routing the wiring in the adaptor for the pin changes. and yes that would screw up the adaptor for what it was designed for but if it works for Yonah WHO CARES!

and I cant get that link to work caater. (FF or IE)

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