Intel PAT Compared On 865PE Boards 117
Xaley writes "There is roundup at VR-Zone on
several 865PE boards
which came equipped with Intel PAT feature and definitely consumers will be
happy to purchase these boards without paying a premium price that Intel has
charged for their 875P chipset. A typical 865PE board costs around $150 and a
875P board costs around $200-250 so it is a cost savings of $100. Of course,
Intel won't be too happy about it since sales of their 875P chipsets will be
affected but there is no stopping for motherboard manufacturers from adding in
the PAT feature into their 865PE boards now."
Ugh. (Score:5, Informative)
No stopping? (Score:3, Informative)
Or just buy an AMD-based board (Score:5, Informative)
For those that were wondering... (Score:5, Informative)
The 875P Canterwood chipset with PAT supposedly provides a 5-7% performance improvement over 865 chipset.
WOO HOO!
TMFA's! When will we start patenting acronyms?
PAT=
Port Address Translation
Page Attribute Table
and now Performance Acceleration Technology
Re:Ugh. (Score:4, Informative)
The above description was slightly vague, so I went out and did a googling for those that would like a little more info. A couple USENET [google.com] posts [google.com] turned up the following:
and
Prices (Score:4, Informative)
Re:For those that were wondering... (Score:3, Informative)
Commercial Viability (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Intel could've easily solved this "problem" (Score:2, Informative)
Your right in that intel should have done something to permanently disable the chips.