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ASUS Claims P4P800 and P4C800 Mainboards to Be Prescott Compatible

But Removes the Written Statement from its Web-Site

by Anton Shilov
07/17/2003 | 08:38 AM

Right after Gigabyte talked on Prescott support by their mainboards powered by Intel’s “Ensure '03 Platforms are Prescott-Ready” Springdale and Canterwood chipsets, a person from ASUSTeK Computer told us that the company’s P4P800 and P4C800 mainboards are also going to be fully-compatible with Intel Prescott CPUs due to be launched later this year.

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“Surely ASUS P4P800 and P4C800 mainboards support the Prescott processors. Keep in mind that ASUS develops and builds mainboards for Intel”, an unnamed ASUS representative said.

“I think everything is under control and has been for some time now. No one will forgive Intel such incompatibility after its pretty recent transition from Socket 423 to Socket 478. It is very unlikely they will go the same road again soon”, he added.

Meanwhile ASUS removed the written claim about Prescott support by P4P800 and P4C800 from its web-site here and here.

We now are not sure who to believe. We think that nearly everything depends on Intel itself at the moment.

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