The potential buyers of processors core 2 Duo e4xxx, Pentium e2xxx and Celeron 4xx must not forget, that Intel company will release the special integrated chipset i945GC, which ensures the support of these processors with 800 MHz system bus. The built-in graphic core of class GMA 950 will hardly satisfy demanding users , but the support of discrete video card with interface PCI express x16 is capable of correcting situation.
Until now, the chipset i945GC support only dual-channel memory of type DDR 2-400 or DDR 2-533, which is pretty low for the moment . After realizing this, intel company recently declared about the modernization of chipset i945GC: from the first days of April this chipset will get the officially support to memory of type DDR 2-667.
The support of processors with 1066 MHz system bus is not provided officially . However, unofficially motherboard producers for sure can realize it using this chipset , there can even add support to 1333 MHz system bus. This information as confirmed by this screen shot, published by associates : The processor core 2 Duo e6850 (3.0 GHz) with 1333 MHz system bus works in motherboard aSRock on the base of chipset i945G. Actually, this motherboard allow to overclock this processors to 350 MHz (1400 MHz) on system bus - for processors with 800 MHz system bus frequency this is completely sufficient for moderate overclock. Related Products :
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