Mobile Pentium III

[heatsinker]

This is directed to anyone who has decent knowledge of Intel processors. I'm planning to upgrade my laptop which is currently using a 1.2GHz Mobile Celeron to a 1GHz Mobile Pentium III. Both CPUs use the same interface and run at 133MHz FSB. I already know that the motherboard supports Mobile P3s, but I'm guessing it's set to a clock multiplier of 9, so if I stick the P3 in there, will it force it to run at 1200MHz or does the CPU determine the multiplier?

The sad part is, the BIOS has no way of changing these types of settings.

 

[0ldman]

All retail Intel CPU's are locked, so a multi option in the BIOS would be worthless, just a tease.

The CPU decides the multiplier.

As for upgrading from a 1.2 Celeron to a 1GHz PIII, that is a downgrade. The 1.2GHz Celeron is based on the Tualatin, a PIII core with 256K L2. The Mobile PIII has 512K L2.

Very little difference, the 200MHz deficit will have the PIII perform slower in almost all cases. The only improvement will be the addition of speedstep.

 

[heatsinker]

That was actually going to be my second question.

I guess I'll just stick with the Celeron.