The Yonah socket is still a 479-pin interface, however the pin-out has been changed once more, and of course Yonah wont even physically fit into any current Pentium M motherboards. Instead, youll need a brand new motherboard with a brand new chipset. So if you invested in any of the handful of desktop Pentium M motherboards that were released over the past year, youre unfortunately out of luck.
Yonah (left) vs. Dothan (right) - Note the different pin-out
Whats this about a new chipset? Well, its not exactly a new chipset, rather its Intels mobile 945 chipset - the mobile version of the desktop chipset weve had for quite some time now. The platform were testing on in particular uses Intels 945G chipset, with integrated graphics, but of course we arent too interested in integrated graphics performance so well be using the PCIe x16 slot on the board.
While we cant tell you who makes the motherboard were testing with, the important thing to note i