Pentiums, socklets, and Coppermine, Oh My!

Posted by Cliff on Sunday August 29, 1999 @02:00AM from the motherboard-worries dept.

Graymalkin asks: "I just put my money into a dual Slot 1 motherboard and a PIII 500. I intend to eventually get a second 500 when their price drops, but now I'm worried about the life of my motherboard. I think it will be the 650 Coppermine and up processors that will be exclusively Socket 370 because of the on-die cache. Does anyone suppose I could plug a Coppermine into a Socklet card and use it with my current motherboard? 500mhz is fine for now but I would like to expand to maybe keep this system running for a few years without having it be completely obsolete. It was a huge investment and I'd like to see it keep up and kicking for longer than my last system. "

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stepping by mattdm · 1999-08-31 03:59 · Score: 2

Actually, in real life, you can often mix steppings. Intel publishes charts of which steppings are known to coexist happily.

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Re:Give it up! by mattdm · 1999-08-31 09:35 · Score: 2

Three times as fast? Really? At what? Can you point me to the numbers?

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