Install Other Hardware; Install The Processor - ECS P6BAT-B Manual

Install Other Hardware

Start installing the essential hardware required to get your system
started.

Install the Processor

This mainboard has a Slot1 processor slot and a Socket-370 processor
socket. You can only install one processor however, so you must choose
what kind of processor to run on this board. 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 Slot1 Processors
You can install three kinds of processor into the Slot1: Pentium-III,
Pentium-II, and SEPP Celeron.
Intel Pentium-III
The Pentium-III has the highest performance. This processor is similar to
the Pentium-II but it includes new instructions to improve the throughput
of multimedia data such as 3D audio and video, speech recognition.
MPEG2 motion picture encoding/decoding and TCP/IP internet
connections. However, only recently released software has the capability
of using these improved instructions. The Pentium-III has 32K of internal
cache memory and 512K of external cache memory. Currently Pentium-
III processors are available at clock speeds up to 750 MHz and they
operate over a 100 MHz system bus. The Pentium-III is the most
expensive of the processors supported by this mainboard.
Intel Pentium-II
The Pentium–II has a wide range of performance. Pentium-II processors
have shipped with clock speeds of 233 MHz through to 450 MHz.
Currently you might find that stores only stock Pentium-IIs with clock
speeds of 350 MHz and higher. Pentium-IIs with a clock speed of 350
MHz or higher operate over a 100 MHz system bus. Pentium-IIs slower
than 350 MHz operate over a 66 MHz system bus. All Pentium-IIs have
32K of internal cache memory and 512K of external cache memory.
Pentium-IIs are less expensive than Pentium-IIIs with the same clock
speed.
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