Pentiun III (R)

I believed that the little r behind your processor speed, i.e. T 600r means an Intel PIII "Coppermine" processor.

I guess it's the same for the R in PIII (R).

ADIOS



Terry_C (^_^)XPS T600 PIII(^_^)

By chance are you referring to the System Properties page where it states "Pentium(r) III Processor?" If so, the "(r)" would be a reference to the Pentium name being a registered trademark of the Intel Corporation.

Or the (R) could mean it's a registered trademark.

Erik
B3JR9, UKMBH & 07C0D

I agree with Terry_C, I believe it signifies a Coppermine versus a Celeron processor.

It signifies a coppermine chip which uses smaller micron etchings (17 microns, I think). There is an informative article about the coppermine chip in probably Januaries, uh, gee I should go look it up, PC World or PC Shopper. Maybe tomorrow I WILL look it up and re-post.

steve

The definitive answer:
Page 79 or Jan 2000, Computer shopper;
The new coppermine chip (I paraphrase) is the first to use .17 micron technology. It has a 256K on chip L2 cache. [ The older chip, the Katmai, includes 512K off-chip cache in the Slot 1 module.]
The L2 cache on the coppermine is half the size of the Katmai module. Also operates at twice the speed.
Coppermines come in 533, 550, 600, 650, 667, 700 and 733MHz.
A coppermine with 100MHz bus speed is the "r", with the 133MHz bus is the "b". Without the suffix the chip is the Katmai.

Thus, my 600r, is coppermine, 100MHz bus speed, 256K cache.
And it gets even more complicated.
More than you wanted to know, I'm sure.

steve