Which cpu should I use?

[Runes911]

Ok, I am upgradeing my CPU/Motherboard and i am getting the Abit BX-133 RAID motherboard, what cpu goes with it i know that there are 2 different kinds of pIII's which is it and what is the difference in them?

 

[BurnItDwn]

well ... the abit BX-133 Raid Motherboard has a socketed design ... not a slot design ..

make sure you buy a CPU that is FCPGA

all speeds of the coppermine are available as FCPGA.

there area few different kings of pIIIs ...

there are the original pIIIs ... which used the slot one connector ... and had 512kb of l2cache (clocked at 1/2 the speed of the cpu core)
(older p3s are also available as PPGA too i believe ... but that is not really important since you would not want one because coppermines are better, and for the most part ... a better price too)

then there are coppermines ... (with 256kb of on die full speed l2 cache)
Coppermines are available as FCPGA (socket type connector to motherboard)
they are also available as SECC2 (which is Slot one ... just like pentium 2 connector)


you want an FCPGA coppermine ... which is BY FAR the most commonly produced pIII



I hope i make sense to you. If not sorry about my terrible grammar and wording.


if you do not care about celeron skip the below portion
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Also .. do not confuse Celeron with pentium 3

the celeron
Originally at 266 and 300mhz with no l2cache on slot 1
rereleased as celeron 300a
and then soon to follow 333,366,400,433,466,500,533 available as slot 1 and ppga

after die shrink to .18micron FCPGA (which uses copppermine core ... but only 1/2 the l2cache) comes out in speeds of

533
566
600
633
667
700

all are using 66mhz fsb ....



if you intend to overclock ... its a good idea to get a coppermine that is designed to run at 100mhz fsb rather then 133mhz fsb ... or a celeron FCPGA 533 or 566 since the faster ones rarely overclock higher then 100mhz fsb