DFI introduces Pentium-M mobos for desktop systems

[Dorza]

The inquirer is reporting that DFI are ready to release Pentium-M based motherboards for desktop systems. here. Ok so the specs of the board are pretty crap for a new board but finally some one has brought the performance of the pentium-M to the desktop. This can only be a step in the right direction (providing intel dont put a stop to it).

[Rave]

The AOpen board is apparently out already. One of the Japanese LN2/Dry ice crew used one to take a Dothan to 3.2GHz Anyway, these do look cool. The DFI board is actually designed for small servers it seems, they have a PCI-X slot on a M-ATX board although the inclusion of an AGP slot suggests that they intended to sell it as a desktop board too.

Rich :¬)

[Swafe]

dothan at 3.2???

someones told me that a 1.7ghz M, is ~25% faster than a 3.2P4

maybe he was having me on tho?

[Timmy!!!]

Nope the Pentium M does perform a lot more work per cycle than the P4, just like AMD processors.

I actually thought it was more than 25%, I thought it was about 50-75% faster partly due the 2MB L2 Cache.

Although having a PM will be great in a desktop, the desktop version of the PM will be even better when it comes out as Intel are planning to put two processors together and clocking them nice and high!

[Dorza]

In some areas they are faster/better, depends on the activity its doing as with all cpus. Anand have a nice review of the 90nm Dothan core.