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Firingsquad Looks at Intel Tualatin, Uses ABIT ST6-RAID

Taipei,Taiwan,R.O.C. August 3nd, 2001-Recently, Intel has released a new processor known as Tualatin. A lot of people have wondered what it was exactly and what type of motherboard supports it. Well, Firingsquad, with the help of an ABIT ST6-RAID helps to explain everything about it, give you the specs on how the CPU compares to its brethren and talks about the difference in motherboards.

"Unlike the transition from "Katmai" (the original Pentium III) to "Coppermine" (Pentium III with integrated 256KB L2 running at the same speed as the processor core), the Coppermine to Tualatin transition will require the use of a new motherboard. Older 815/815E chipsets and their variants as well as the venerable BX chipset simply don't support the lower signal levels of Tualatin's Gunning Transceiver Logic (GTL) bus, which operates at 1.25V in comparison to the 1.5V signal levels of GTL+ (used on Pentium II/III and Pentium Pro)… To prevent damaging your Tualatin CPU, the processor won'

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