From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 29 21: 5:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.sstar.com (cgi.sstar.com [209.205.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7571437B699 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluto.jimking.net (root@bluto.jimking.net [216.54.255.8]) by cgi.sstar.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0U54os43522 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:04:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.4]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0U54lL77751; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:04:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <001701c08a7a$2c7cbf30$04e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Matthew Emmerton" Cc: References: <007801c08a79$c287a7c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Subject: Re: Celeron Question... Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:04:47 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew Emmerton" : > > 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? > > Early Celerons (ie 300, 333 MHz) were a Slot 1 design. The FCPGA design > uses the Socket 370 design, and has been used for everything 400MHz and > above. 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. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message