Whats the diff btwn FCPGA and SECC2?

[Wah]

besides the obvious...

 

[LXi]

Besides the obvious, there is no performance difference, they use the same voltage as well. The heatsink is a little different, usually SECC2 has huge heatsinks, while the FC-PGAs gets small ass heatsinks, Im just talking about the Intel stock hs/fan. Of course, you can put an equally good Alpha on the FC-PGAs.

 

[Ulysses]

I think the most important difference is that an SECC2 style CPU can only be used in a Slot 1 type mobo. An FC-PGA will go directly into a Socket 370 board or can be matched to a Slot 1 board with the use of a 'slotket' adapter. Intel is supposed to phase out the SECC2 format eventually. So the FC-PGA is more versatile and may have a longer useful life - P3 motherboards based on the new Intel 815 chipset are expected to me all Socket 370 boards, like the ASUS CUSL2. Performance wise they should be the same. Yet the 1 GHz P3 comes only in SECC2, probably because it's going to OEM's.

 

[LXi]

<<Yet the 1 GHz P3 comes only in SECC2, probably because it's going to OEM's.>>

There are FC-PGA 1GHz P3s.

 

[Wah]

any disadvantages when using a slotket adapter?

 

[LXi]

No disadvantage, no performance loss, no nothing.

 

[Kill_Phil]

cant say for shure, but its allways possible that a poorly designed slotket can slow down your performance or decrease stability. but a advantage is that you can useually tweak the voltage from the slotket, and if your mobo allready supports voltage tweaks, some slotkets support more than some mobos =)

 

[Mday]

there is one disadvantage with a slocket. a slocket is pretty much a socket on a PCB. this means you need a socket type hs\fan combo. and some of these are quite large, so you may wind up losing a DIMM socket or something.

with a pure socket solution, this does not happen.

note: large hs\fan combos for the slot also may wind up costing a dimm socket.

 

[LXi]

I've seen more slot hs/fans taking away DIMM sockets than socket hs/fan designs. It's true that with socket design that doesnt happen, because the hs/fan will face upward. But I dont really see there is a disadvantage if the slocket is high quality and everything is properly setup.

 

[DaddyG]

The SECC2 package uses slightly higher voltage than the FC-PGA. Check Intel specs.