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Old 11-01-2000, 01:11 AM   #8
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The more I dig, the more I believe that the PIII-E and the Cel-mine are the same chip. To date, the caps decide voltage and bus rate by bypassing internal bus rate choices.
This was a tricky endevor and more reserch is needed.
Now it seems, Intel thinks their dirty lil secret is safe and sound because on very recent Cel-mines they even omitted the covering over the pads for the caps. Still, well worth the 85 bucks and yet so much more to learn. I would suggest that Bailey is more correct than not. It makes no "business" sence to "build" differing lines of the same product when the end product can be "decided" after their testing.
Like the first gen Celerys, soon the Cel-mine will out sell the PIII by yet a larger margin and their standard will be relaxed and more and more "PIIIs" will come out as Cel-mines. More as data comes to bare.
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