Intel's Merom isn't far away!

Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
edited October 2006 in Science & Tech
After talking with MackanzOCZ at the LAN this past weekend about Intel's new Merom I got to thinking. Then after watching him and Sledgehammer70 pull their laptops apart to see how difficult a swap would be when the new Merom chips arrive. So here is a little snipet from The Inquirer.

THE SUCCESSOR to the Yonah mobile processor, Merom, appears for the first time on the roadmaps Intel showed to its customers last week.

But that's little more than a placemark on the notebook roadmap and scheduled for the second half of 2006, along with a Yonah T2700. We reported in September that Intel will make it a 64-bit chip with 4MB of L2 cache.

Comments

  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited June 2006
    Yup if I can find bios I will be upgrading
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2006
    I just love when a storm of new processors come out, its almost like christmas.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited June 2006
    They also have a couple of desktop boards that run Yonah and with a bios flash they will support Merom too. I'm wondering if Yonah/Merom and one of those boards might not be a better overclocking option than Conroe myself. This is due to Conroe using a 266 or 333 fsb speed default versus a 166 fsb speed on Merom, which will give you more overclocking headroom, fsb wise(higher multi's with Merom). Otherwise, Merom looks to be very similar to Conroe, with the same L2 cache size and basic architecture.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited June 2006
    Mudd
    Merom is Conroe with 479 pins. I do agree that it is going to be another one of those mobiles that OC better than its parent counterpart. It will at least put a whole new perspective on notebook performance compared to what we have seen from both camps in the past. I think the coming 18 months will provide some of the best performance and bang for the buck in performance computing that has ever been seen on this planet!
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Merom actually comes from the exact same wafer as Conroe. They are precisely the same CORE, just different packaging. Merom is actually the finer binned silicone. Hence the much lower TDP.
  • AzizaVFRAzizaVFR
    edited October 2006
    It looks like HP released a new version of the bios for the dv8000t. It is version F.17A. It says it supports Core 2 Duo. I personally have been waiting for it to upgrade my book. The new bios can be found here.

    Now I just have to get the cash together, and someone needs to get them in stock. There has been such a demand for them, Intel is running behind.
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