New marking for C1 stepping processors (SLAN3 - > SLAWN);
CPUID Value will change from 0x00010676 to 0x00010677;
C1 stepping processors will be compatible with C0 stepping processors ;
There is no Changes in electrical, mechanical and processors thermal specifications ;
For platforms, created according to Intel recommendations , no changes for new processors support is required. It will be sufficient to update the motherboard bios.
In the functional sense new stepping will not also bring any changes. New processors will begin to reach users on 3 March, 2008. We hope that new stepping will bring some improvements in the overclocking potential. It would be desirable also that series 45 nm processors Core 2 quad Q9xxx will be originally based on C1 stepping