Slotket for New Celery 1.2ghz

[Mojonba]

I still live on the celery tradition. My first ones (I got three) were a Cel300A @464mhz. Then I got a 533A @ 933mhz. The new Celery 1.2ghz 0.13m looks like the perfect mate to my trusty Abit BH6. I read that these the new Tualatins won't work on Bx boards,, BUT what if some company creates a slotcket with its own volatage regulator like the Abit Slotket 3 or the Iwill in the times when we wanted our Celermines (First Celerons with 0.18m, Started with the 533A) to work with our Bx Boards? In taht time the problem was the volatge and it could be easily overcomed with a new slotket. My question is is it possible that some company may come up with a slotcket for the tualatins ???? Or do the Tualation vary from Coppermines in other aspects other than voltage??

!!! Long Live Bx Boards and Celerys !!!!

 

[Parrotheader]

I don't know about the whole slocket or socket-to-socket converter for backwards compatability to BX and other boards. Like Blondy said, there are more than just voltage issues to keep it from working in a BX board. And I'm sure they'd LOVE to make you buy a new mobo if possible. I'm sure Intel's seeing this more in terms of OEMs and manufacturers since most people won't know what kind of board they're buying and that its upgradability is extremely limited.

That being said, I wouldn't say the Tualatin/Celeron3/Celeratin (whatever they end up being called) is an "already dead" line. I just wouldn't look at one if you had to change motherboards. Unforutnately, most people here probably would. But the new .13m Celerons (assuming that's what they're called) will not be suffering from some of the same 'crippling' effects the old Celerons had. From what I've been reading, they'll be the same thing as the current 256k cache Tualatins except they may be running at 100MHz fsb instead (which is fine by me since that leaves plenty of overclocking room.) Granted, that'll still be a bottleneck compared to the fsb speeds of Athlons and P4s, but since I can just plop one of these in, overclock it and get pretty solid performance, I'll probably do that rather than go swap out the entire platform. I remember one site showed the 256k Tualatins being pretty close to even with the new Duron line (winning on some benchmarks and losing on some others, but by nowhere near as wide a margin as it used to be.)

They'll be great for notebooks and servers. I'm personally hoping to get one of the 512k mobile/server chips once they drop enough in price.