Comments on: 03/04/2001 https://dfarq.homeip.net/03042001/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=03042001 David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:58:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/03042001/#comment-600 Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:16:03 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=842#comment-600 If it’s PGA, it’s the old Mendocino core, not Coppermine. Coppermines are FCPGA. “Flip chip” means the CPU core is on the top of the chip, rather than on the bottom like pre-Coppermine Intel CPUs. They moved the core to the top of the chip to improve cooling, but packaging chips that way was more complicated, which was why they didn’t always do it in the first place.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/03042001/#comment-606 Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:39:15 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=842#comment-606 Thanks! I have an emachines 533 at home and would love to know how I find out if it’s got the old core or the coppermine but I can’t get a tip anywhere. The socket on the board says PGA370 and it’s an AMI 586 mobo. Also, I was wondering, what is flip chip PGA?

Thanks, keep it up!
Dale

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