by Anna Filatova
02/14/2001 | 01:51 PM
Although the days of the current 423-pin Pentium 4 are numbered and it should be replaced with a new 478-pin Northwood in the fall, some mainboard manufacturers keep offering their Socket423 products based on i815 chipset. This time we are going to tell you about a new board from DFI, WT70, which mass manufacturing is scheduled for early March.
This mainboard is equipped with 4 RIMM slots, 1 AGP 4x, 5 PCI and 1 CNR slot. it also supports AC’97 sound and 4 USB ports. All in all, it is hardly very much different from the similar mainboards offered by Gigabyte and MSI, for instance.
Well, even despite the short lifetime of the new DFI WT70, the company hopes to sell some of them. To tell the truth, this is all very understandable: Pentium 4 mainboards are quite expensive that’s why they are very profitable goods for any company.