Jon Simon van Sharky Extreme ging met zijn fietsje op de thee bij Asus in Taipei. Naast wat info over de Asus CUC2000 (socket370 i820 plank) vinden we in zijn artikel een opmerking over het probleem van de hoge multipliers bij de Celeron II en Pentium III (thanks dZeus voor de tip):
ASUS dropped a little interesting tidbit of information on us. It turns out that the 1GHz Coppermine CPU has special design needs in motherboards. On Intel Coppermine CPUs up to 850MHz, four pins are used to determine the CPU multiplier. Above 850MHz, no pins are used. Four pins give you 16 possible settings, and apparently they run out of settings after an 8.5x multiplier. Therefore, to work with a 1GHz Pentium, motherboards have to be able to recognize the CPU without the pins so that they can run at the CPU's intended speed and provide proper voltage.
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