PAT is 'CONFIRMED' to be Marketing, nothing more!!!

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On the other hand, one could respond that no one has ever done speed bins on chipsets before,

Then what is the correct industry discription of the Nforce2 chipset revisions

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: thorin

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Yet he continues to come back here...... So we quote Anthony Hopkins from The Edge

Who is more the fool: the fool, or the fool that follows him?

Thorin

That was said by Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars first

 

[thermite88]

Originally posted by: TROGDORdBURNINATOR
not marketing "Performance Acceleration Technology is one of the features of our 875P (Canterwood) chipset. We basically bin our Memory Controller Hub (MCH) chips like our CPUs, finding the fastest silicon. We can then use this fast silicon to shave off a couple of memory clock cycles, resulting in better performance."

So PAT does exist. It's a hardware feature, which, as XBit Labs astutely pointed out, is like AMD's old Super Bypass Mode. "

First, a quote from Intel that PAT is not in the hardware. Then a statement that "PAT exists and is hardware". It seems to me that the quote was not read at all.

A better description of the situation can be found at Tom's Hardware Since it is not hardware, Asus is able to find a way to bypass Intel's lock and activiate PAT on the 865 motherboard. Other MB manufacturer may follow suit pretty soon.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: thermite88

Originally posted by: TROGDORdBURNINATOR
not marketing "Performance Acceleration Technology is one of the features of our 875P (Canterwood) chipset. We basically bin our Memory Controller Hub (MCH) chips like our CPUs, finding the fastest silicon. We can then use this fast silicon to shave off a couple of memory clock cycles, resulting in better performance."

So PAT does exist. It's a hardware feature, which, as XBit Labs astutely pointed out, is like AMD's old Super Bypass Mode. "

First, a quote from Intel that PAT is not in the hardware. Then a statement that "PAT exists and is hardware". It seems to me that the quote was not read at all.

A better description of the situation can be found at Tom's Hardware Since it is not hardware, Asus is able to find a way to bypass Intel's lock and activiate PAT on the 865 motherboard. Other MB manufacturer may follow suit pretty soon.

well, in my experience with both chipsets you cannot feel a difference. Benchmarks show it, but is it worth it for the "piece of mind" factor alone? I don't think so, but again it's your call.

 

[thermite88]

The article on how Asus was able to bypass the Intel lock and activiate the PAT on their 865 disappeared shortly after posted. Anyone knows what is going on?

Tom's Articles Results: Found 1 articles. Listing 1 - 1:

June 3, 2003
Metamorphosis from Springdale to Canterwood
Asus has succeeded in activating the PAT optimization with the P4P800, which is based on the 865PE chipset. THG shows you the details. It's a hot topic, but what does Intel think of it all?
... able to active Intel's Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT) for robust computing. Currently, ASUS' 865PE motherboards are the only solutions in the market ...

The link was broken: page not found.

 

[thermite88]

As a result of Asus working directly with THG, the company decided to take the difficult step of giving us exclusive and exciting information about how PAT can be reactivated with the 865/Springdale chipset. This information will also help to take care of any possible misunderstandings among hardware enthusiasts.

The pages are back. Go see how this was done at Tom's Hardware.