The Future, The Past: Part 1: The Pentium 3 and Intel

core2solo, shit is real boi.

Well there were little to no differences between P2 and P3; thats why most mobo's were known to be P2/P3 (but didn't support FSB 133MHz out of the box (it had standard 100MHz), so you could argue P3 was just overclocked FSB to make it faster)

P3 @ 800MHz was already at socket 370 (and AMD was rocking the world at that time already with cheap durons and more expensive athlons little bit later; so there wasn't much reason to stay with intel at the time; not to mention p2/3 were power loud big hogs.)

i've seen some people manged to modify slot1 pcb to support socket 370 on top of it. It was nice hack back in the time.

original slot1

hacked pcb slot1

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