can you use a centrino on a regular board ?

[ZL1]

Hi

guys is it possible to use a centrino on a regular board ? I was offered a 1.3 with 1mb l2 cache for quite cheap and Id like to get it if I can use it somehow

please let me know


Thank you
Dan

[Dputiger]

Not yet. Centrino's use the 855 chipset from Intel and there's no commercial boards built on that. However it WOULD be possible to gut a notebook and put board + chipset in a case of somesort. You'd have to custom-design it, but you could make a desktop out of a Centrino board + CPU.

[mpc]

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[mpc]

Centrino is a marketing name that refers to having a sytem that meets three criteria for the name "Centrino".

1. Pentium M processor
2. Intel's 855 chipset
3. Intel's Wirepro 802.11

If you don't have all three...it's not a Centrino.

What you have is a Pentium M mobile processor, which does not necessarily need the 855 chipset (there are others that work with it), however, there are no non laptop boards yet available for it. (that I know of) Wait, and there probably will be in time.