Pentium M on your Socket 478 platform

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:32 am

infinitevalence wrote:***infinitevalence morns Apop's loss,

we feel for you man, i know you were close to that adapter. but remember life is short and there are other adapters out there and one is just right for you. you can move on, all you have to do is be strong.

LOL

Anyway, yeah, sorry to hear about the loss. Hopefully Asus is cool about giving you a new one

caslaw · Post by **caslaw** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:08 pm

OUCH!

Did just the adapter fry? Sounds like it. This is why it is good to wait and not jump in on the cutting edge (SLI, etc.). Wait to see how it sorts out before spending your hard earned money.

It would be great to reproduce the conditions with another adapter to see if the same thing happens. It may be that the adapter has inherent voltage limitations, which will limit its overclocking, or maybe you just got a bad adapter?

Hopefully you will get another one, I am sure ASUS is very interested in what you are doing. I wonder if it could be vmodded?

Apoptosis - keep up the good work and KEEP HOPE ALIVE!

caslaw · Post by **caslaw** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:10 pm

HEY WAIT A SECOND . . . This isn't your idea of an April Fool's joke is it Apop?

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:18 pm

caslaw wrote:HEY WAIT A SECOND . . . This isn't your idea of an April Fool's joke is it Apop?

OOOOHHHHHHHH, you called it!!!!!! It may not be but I bet it is!!!

davluks · Post by **davluks** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:49 pm

It has been a week. Any updates ?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:13 pm

yeah, ASUS said all the cards are selling fast and they are out of stock. My card failed and took out my P4C800E and P4P800E boards. I have two dead boards and a dead adapter that I am sending back for RMA.

teqguy · Post by **teqguy** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:52 pm

Apoptosis, during your correspondence with ASUS, have they at any point specified why there's limited motherboard support for the adapter?

I'm assuming that any board is capable of supporting the adapter, but not without a microcode update.

If this is the case, then I could post a very concise guide on how to go about attaining and updating the microcodes. It's actually a very simple process.

Furthermore... I recently discovered that Intel manufactures Dothans in both the Socket 478 PPGA and 479 H-BPGA interfaces, which would indicate that the adapter isn't exactly a requirement... provided that my previous speculation holds true.

If this hurdle is as small as it seems to be, the only problem left is devising a method of absorbing the pressure imposed by conventional heatsinks. The thought of crushing a Dothan makes me cringe.

davluks · Post by **davluks** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:47 am

selling fast ???

I can't even find a SINGLE store selling it. Can you help me point out a store that sell CT-479 individually and ship worldwide ?

Thank's !

Apoptosis wrote:yeah, ASUS said all the cards are selling fast and they are out of stock. My card failed and took out my P4C800E and P4P800E boards. I have two dead boards and a dead adapter that I am sending back for RMA.

teqguy · Post by **teqguy** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:11 am

davluks wrote:selling fast ??? I can't even find a SINGLE store selling it. Can you help me point out a store that sell CT-479 individually and ship worldwide ?

Thank's !

I believe he's referring to vendors and OEMs.

It'll be at least a week or two before you see the adapter go retail.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:14 am

teg, my understanding is that the 478 is for OEM and blade servers only. and i think you have to pair it with some of the server chipsets.

teqguy · Post by **teqguy** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:52 am

Architecturally, the S478 version is exactly the same as the S479 version... the only difference being that pin, which might I add, does absolutely nothing.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/script ... Spec=SL7SL
http://processorfinder.intel.com/script ... Spec=SL7SP

Both of them support the i855PM, GM, and GME chipsets, and even use the same microcode.

davluks · Post by **davluks** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:58 pm

still waiting for the CT-479 to hit the stores.

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:00 pm

davluks wrote:still waiting for the CT-479 to hit the stores.

Yes, pretty strange that after all the hype and kudos around the net it still hasn't been released

davluks · Post by **davluks** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:06 am

JUST FOUND THIS, THE FIRST RETAIL SHOP SELLING ASUS CT-479 :

http://www.xpcgear.com/asusct479.html

http://www.atacom.com/program/print_htm ... SER_ID=www

Its $ 49.99. Unfortunately, they only ship to US, Canada and Puerto Rico.

I stay in Singapore. Any kind soul here willing to purchase and send the item to my address ? I will pay in advance including the shipping fee .

Thank's !

conspectumortis · Post by **conspectumortis** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:45 pm

Someone breaks the 260Mhz fsb with the adapter

@Nathan
You must have to get the record back :D

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:13 pm

LOL, the belt has been thrown down. Great job conspectumortis....is that pretty stable?
Keep us updated as youexperiences with this thing

conspectumortis · Post by **conspectumortis** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:16 pm

@capper5016

but its not my pentium m ,i have got the picture from abika.
The adapter is still not available in germany, where i live :/

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:02 pm

davluks wrote:JUST FOUND THIS, THE FIRST RETAIL SHOP SELLING ASUS CT-479 :

http://www.xpcgear.com/asusct479.html

http://www.atacom.com/program/print_htm ... SER_ID=www

Its $ 49.99. Unfortunately, they only ship to US, Canada and Puerto Rico.

I stay in Singapore. Any kind soul here willing to purchase and send the item to my address ? I will pay in advance including the shipping fee .

Thank's !

NICE FIND!!!

davluks · Post by **davluks** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:28 pm

anyone can get 1 for me ?

gvblake22 wrote:
davluks wrote:JUST FOUND THIS, THE FIRST RETAIL SHOP SELLING ASUS CT-479 :

http://www.xpcgear.com/asusct479.html

http://www.atacom.com/program/print_htm ... SER_ID=www

Its $ 49.99. Unfortunately, they only ship to US, Canada and Puerto Rico.

I stay in Singapore. Any kind soul here willing to purchase and send the item to my address ? I will pay in advance including the shipping fee .

Thank's !
NICE FIND!!!

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:47 pm

I would offer but shipping outside the US is a major pain in the ass

and you never know if it will get where you want it. Things were so much better when i was working for the US embassy can you say diplomatic pouch