Intel Celeron 600 "Coppermine128"

Celeron 566/600 Specifications

·        0.18-micron Coppermine128 core

·        566/600MHz clock speed – 8.5/9.0x clock multiplier

·        32KB on-die L1 cache running at core speed

·        256-bit Advanced Transfer Cache - 128KB on-die L2 cache running at core speed

·        Advanced System Buffering

·        370-pin FC-PGA Socket-370 GTL+ CPU interface running at 66MHz

·        1.50v core voltage

While we're about to start talking about most of the specifications, it is interesting to note that new 566/600MHz parts run at a core voltage of only 1.50v. Considering that their 600MHz FC-PGA Pentium III counterparts run at 1.60v, the 0.1v difference in core voltage can be attributed mostly to the 128KB of on-die L2 cache vs 256KB on the Pentium III.

By having a lower core voltage Intel can hopefully extend the line to some very high frequencies simply by increasing the core voltage as time goes on, the same potential is left to the users as far as overclocking is concerned.

Since the new Celerons are FC-PGA chips they will only work on Socket-370 motherboards that support FC-PGA processors and/or Socket-370 to Slot-1 converters that support FC-PGA CPUs.