What does PPGA stand for???

[Sweeper]

Celeron 500 PPGA form factor (370pin socket) 128k L2 cache OEM PACKAGE
I am thinking of getting one. Currently have a pentium II 350. Will that processor work??
What does the PPGA stand for???

[Susan]

PPGA stands for Plastic Pin Grid Array and is a 370 pin socketed chip.

www-cs.intel.com/design/quality/celeron/ppga/integration.htm (http://www-cs.intel.com/design/quality/celeron/ppga/integration.htm)

If you are to buy one of those, you will also need what they call a Slotket which is a convertor card for it to go into a Slot 1 motherboard.

www.chu.cam.ac.uk/home/rga24/slocket.htm (http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/home/rga24/slocket.htm)


[This message has been edited by Susan (edited 09-14-99).]

[Sweeper]

Just courious on why they would go and do something like that???? that sucks.
Rather just get a 433 slot 1 celeron or a 450 pentium II or III.

[jbob]

I'd rethink that. My sources say that Intel is going to drop the slot 1 style and go strictly to PPGA 370.

[Sweeper]

Well, not sure what the heck to do...Gateway is giving me the run-around about what processors will run on my system. I have a pentium II 350 now. I put in a Celeron 333 Mhz to see if that would run and it did. "Sandra" shows my board able to take up to 500 Mhz. But doesn't say whether it will take a pentium III. Stuck here :-(
Anyone have some suggestions:
this is the info they keep sending me....
Processor Support

This motherboard supports one Pentium&3174; II processor. The processor's Voltage Identification (VID) pins automatically program the voltage regulator on the motherboard to the required processor voltage. The motherboard currently supports processors that are compliant with the VRM 8.2 DC-DC Converter Design Guidelines document. This is the specification that defines DC-to-DC converters to meet the power requirements of the Intel Pentium II processor and future microprocessors.

Note: This motherboard supports Pentium II processors with a 100 or 66MHz front side bus (FSB).


Processors with a 100MHz FSB should only be used with 100MHz RAM.
Processors with a 66MHz FSB can be used with 100 or 66MHz RAM.
Processor Upgrades The motherboard can be upgraded with Pentium II processors that run at higher speeds by using the configure mode in CMOS.