Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:07:03 -0800 From: Darren Shepard <shepard@engr.orst.edu> To: Jim King <jim@jimking.net> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Celeron Question... Message-ID: <20010129220703.E27525@eel.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
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> Celerons from 266 MHz up to 500 MHz or so were available in Slot1. > Somewhere along the line they also started producing them in a Socket370 > package called PPGA. Same core as the Slot1 guys, but in a different > package. Not to be picky or anything, but I believe the last Slot1 celery was a 400MHz part. Also the Celeron 266 and Celeron 300 had no L2-cache. The Celeron 300A (medicino? core) was the first with 128K L2 cache. All faster celerons (to this date) still have 128K L2. > When the Coppermine version of the Pentium III came along Intel came up with > a new package called FC-PGA that also fits in Socket370. The lobotomized > version of this core is the newer Celeron (aka Celeron II and > Coppermine128). > > FC-PGA CPU's have a couple slight changes in their pinout. Although they > will physically fit in any Socket370, they will not work in motherboards > that were only designed to accomodate PPGA CPU's. > > All the Socket370 motherboards on the market nowadays can accomodate both > PPGA and FC-PGA CPU's. > > Jim -- Darren Shepard | dss@orst.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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