From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 29 18: 2:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (mail.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EC637B404 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:02:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id qcxsaaaa for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:11:05 +1100 Message-ID: <3A7620C9.AE2C044C@quake.com.au> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:02:49 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Paul A. Howes" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Celeron Question... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Paul A. Howes" wrote: > > All- > > I know this is completely off-topic for the stable mailing list, but no one > else seems to know the answer to this question: What is the difference > between a Celeron and a Celeron FC-PGA CPU? I am looking at several > motherboards from Tyan and ASUS, and all of them seem to have a Socket 370, > yet some models claim support for one variant of the chip, and other models > claim support for the other variant. I would appreciate any help you can > render to alleviate this confusion. Newer Celerons are based on the coppermine design, while the older ones are based on a different one, the klamath or something I think... The new Celerons are sometimes called Cerleron 2, and they have a faster L2 cache or something like that... AFAIK most all current motherboards with a Socket 370 support both types... And Only Celerons over 600mhz are the new coppermine ones... Your best bet if you want more technical and definitive answers would be to search the intel developers web site, but if you are just worried about a motherboard not supporting your Celeron, dont be, if it supports a PIII then its going to support both types of Celeron... Hope that helps you out :) Kal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message