Install Other Hardware
Start installing the essential hardware required to get your system
started.
Install the Processor
This mainboard has a Socket-370 processor socket. To choose a
processor, you need to consider the performance requirements of the
system and also the price of the processor. Performance is based on the
processor design, the clock speed and system bus frequency of the
processor, and the quantity of internal cache memory and external cache
memory. Higher clock speeds and larger amounts of cache memory
deliver greater performance.
About Socket-370 Processors
The socket-370 supports the FC-PGA Intel Celeron and Cyrix Joshua
processor.
Intel FC-PGA Celeron
FC-PGA stands for Flip Chip Plastic Pin Grid Array. This is a description
of the square plastic package that the processor is embedded in. The
FC-PGA Celeron is identical to the SEPP Celeron, except for the
external packaging. FC-PGA Celerons run at clock speeds from 300
MHz through to 533 MHz. All the current FC-PGA Celerons operate over
a 66 MHz system bus. The Fc-PGA Celeron is less expensive than a
SEPP Celeron with the same clock speed.
Cyrix Joshua
The new Cyrix FC-PGA Joshua processor also fits into the Socket-370.
The Joshua will include a 256K on-chip L2 cache, which runs at full
processor speed. It is the first non-Intel chip to plug into the same socket
as a Celeron.
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