Celeron has heat protection.

Celeron II's ARE PIII's. They take the PIII's with defective cache and disable the defective side by "blowing" connections with high electrical current. Then they apply the multiplier locks and the tag.

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Hey Crash, I've heard the same sort of thing regarding Durons and Tbirds, but I know that's not true because the die size is different.
What's the difference in the process?

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All Coppermines do indeed come off the same line. Including PIII's and Celerons. If they won't run within heat tolerance, they are set at a lower clock. The cache is the most defect-prone part of the chip, if one side is bad, it is disabled. Everything that makes the difference between a Celeron 566 and a PIII 1000 happens during the final testing process, where certain circuits are blown to make the bus speed and voltage differences. You can understand that part if you look at the white papers. I don't know how the multiplier is set though. If I did I might be able to change it.

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Right, but what's the difference between Tbirds and Durons?

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I think the Duron is actually MANUFACTURED with less cache, thus a smaller die, but I'm not totally sure on this.

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Yes they are, and the new morgans especially, durons are not defective tbirds.

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