by Anna Filatova
07/17/2002 | 11:28 PM
As is known, the PL-P4 converter (also known as PL-P4/W) announced in April by PowerLeap featured one very tangible drawback: it didn’t support Pentium 4 processors on 0.13micron Northwood core.
Now the company improved the situation having announced an enhanced converter modification aka PL-P4/N, which supports Pentium 4 CPUs on Northwood core. Besides that, it also supports 0.18micron Pentium 4 on Willamette core and 0.18micron Celeron CPUs on Willamette-128 core.<%BANNER[article]%>
I did my best, honestly, but I failed to find any noticeable differences between the old PL-P4/W and the new PL-P4/N converters. However, this is not that important, I should say, as the company promises that 0.13micron Pentium 4 will work with their product without any problems. By the way, I simply do not understand why on earth they needed to release PL-P4/W at all? They could have announced a solution for both processor types from the very beginning (the differences really are minimal, as almost all Socket423 mainboards have the power supply required by Northwood). Well, it seems that now not only processor and chipset makers now started working on the customers like that, offering them intermediate products. It’s really a pity...