PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

Most motherboards that support a Pentium II processor can be upgraded to a
PentiumIII;however,itmayrequireaflashBIOS(seeChapter4)upgrade.Anewerversion
of the PIII, which sports 256K of L1 cache and a 133MHz bus speed is to be packaged in the
lessexpensiveSlot370-likeFC-PGA(FlipChip-PinGraphicsAssembly)(seeFigure3-21).

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Figure 3-20. The Pentium III processor in the Slot 1 SECC2 package. Photo courtesy

of Intel Corporation

Figure 3-21. The Pentium III in the FC-PGA socket package. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation