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Old 06-23-2000, 09:15 PM   #22
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Not likely, if you flip the chip over to view the bottom side, you will notice some differences between the PIII and the Celeron. I do believe the PIII has 8 (I think they are resistors, not sure) soldered to the backside of the chip) while the Celeron has (damn..can't remember...I think 4). These "resistors" were rumored to have something to do with the cache connection. An early review on first sample release Celeron II's actually had the mount points visible on the chip where the remaining pieces would get soldered on, but the prodution version, these mount points are not visible, so I would assume that there is a production variance somewhere.

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