Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 - Technology Showcase

Intel's 865 & 875

As we mentioned in the Newsletter yesterday, Intel's Springdale and Canterwood chipsets will be called the 865 and 875 respectively. Their features are best summarized by the following table:

Intel had a number of 865 motherboards running at the Technology Showcase, mainly in their Powersville concept PC designs:

Intel's Powersville motherboard fits the new Bigwater form factor that Intel announced a year ago; the purpose of this motherboard was to develop a proof of concept of the Bigwater layout with a next-generation Pentium 4 platform, in this case the 865 chipset with a Pentium 4 3.0GHz (800MHz FSB).

The 865MCH had a massive heatsink, much larger than anything we've ever seen on a desktop chipset before - partially because of the fact that it is still using passive cooling:

Looking at the motherboard, you can see that it has native Serial ATA support built onto the board itself; closer inspection reveals that there's no external controller, and that the Serial ATA is running natively through the South Bridge (ICH5).