SUMMARY: It has been a long time coming. Finally, Intel yesterday released the i845GE and PE chipsets for the Pentium 4 platform with official support for DDR-333 through a new memory controller. This comes at a time where SiS and VIA have had their DDR333 solutions (and faster in the case of VIA with their P4X400) out for several months already. Do you really need to upgrade your motherboard to the latest and greatest? Follow Cameron "Sov" Johnson has he gives us an answer to this question.
In design, the I845GE test board was identical to the I845G motherboard we received for testings several months ago. This board featured a non-removable heatsink on the northbridge, so we couldn't get photos of the chip itself but from the images you can see what we dealt with for our testings.
