Intel's PAT more like a turbot than a turbo

IF YOU CAN MAKE a Springdale 865 motherboard miraculously transform into a board that's got the "turbo" power of a Canterwood 875 motherboard with a simple BIOS upgrade, then there's something wrong in the Pentium 4 paradise.

Turbo, Turbot, Old Trout
or Big Whopper? You decide

There's something fishy going on here. The turbo is more like a turbot.

As Fuad Abazovic explains here, three of the big mobo makers are set to release a BIOS that will wipe out the price difference between the two marchitectures in a flash, and that's set off our smoke'n'mirrors FUD detector big time.

We're reliably informed that other mobo makers will follow Epox, Asus and Abit into this brave new world soon.

It seems that the only difference between the 865 and the 875 marchitecture is the extra $11 Intel gets from the turbot version of what's essentially the same chipset with good silicon, apart from ECC checking.

Meaning that PAT - standing for performance acceleration technology - is, as we suspected when we first revealed its existence last year, a figment, a chimera, and a fevered dream.

Unless of course, Intel, you'd care to give us an alternative explanation that makes more sense. µ

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