Gisteren werd in deze nieuwsposting al het één en ander gemeld over de nieuwe Serverworks chipset voor de Intel Foster processor. VIA Hardware komt vandaag met een paar foto's van een mainboard dat op deze chipset gebaseerd is, en da's natuurlijk 'smikkelen en smullen' voor iedere rechtbesnaarde computeraar. We laten je alleen met de plaatjes en de begeleidende tekst:
Strangly lacking from the ServerWorks demonstration board was any sort of DIMM or RIMM slots. However, ServerWork's Foster chipse does in fact support DDR-SDRAM, in contrast to the i860's RDRAM only requirement. The DIMM riser cards mounts to the interface that is barely covered by the yellow arrow, where a desktop motherboard's AGP port would be located. Also, the ServerSet 4 (obviously) supports up to 4 Foster processors,
Of interest is the connectors situated next to each Socket 600 processor interface. These slots accept Voltage Regulation Modules, which must be installed with each CPU to cut down on costs when using only 1 or 2 CPU's, Foster supposedly supports up to 4MB of L3, in addition to its on-die L1, Trace Cache, and L2, but it is questionable whether it is integrated on-die or not (as its not on the motherboard.)
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Nalezen kan je 't artikel hier, en hier is meer info over de chipset te vinden.