If you are using win98 (not 2nd edition): at the time MS release win98, there was no PIII/Celeron cpu yet, so win98 reports all celeron and P3 CPUs as P2, that's ok, it
won't affect performance at all, it was just a "reporting" issue, not a problem.

Jun Qian

Joe Fehrenbach wrote:

> I'm still ironing out the problems with the new system I've built.  The newest problem I've noticed is that my System Information isn't accurate.
> I have a Intel PIII 600MHz, but the system identifies it as a GenuineIntel Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology.
> It also says it has no FPU.
> Is this going to affect the performace of my computer?  Even though Windows isn't recognizing my CPU correctly will programs still be able to use the FPU and the PIII?

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