"Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 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
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