PGA 370 appears to be some new format for celeron that is compatible with a
new 440ZX66 chipset, it sounds like it is geared to low end systems but I
can't really figure out where they are going with the celeron line.  The
Celeron 266 - 333 will fit in slot 1.  However, according to this months
issue of Maximum PC the new 450 and 500 MHz Katamai processors due out
early next year will also be compatible with the Slot 1 format and the
440BX chipset, so it sounds to me like slot 1 isn't dead yet.  I have heard
of slot 2 ... is this for the Xenon processors and geared at servers?  Not
sure.

Bill Nussbaumer

At 03:23 PM 12/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have about 7 P133MMX's that need to be upgraded to a faster
>processor. I was going to put in a new Motherboard with a Slot 1 to
>run a PII or Celeron chip. Now that Intel has come out with Celeron
>on a new chip style, that requires a different socket (Believe it is
>called a PGA 370 ?) would it make sense to use that style of
>motherboard ? It sort of sounds like the slot 1 experiment by intel
>is over and now they want us to use a different socket, that
>supposedly will result in faster, cheaper and easier to produce
>chips. Does anyone have a different slant on this ? Is slot 1 going
>to be around in the near future ?
>
>Dale Laluk / [log in to unmask]
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