Covington celeron die caps

[Neon_WA]

I was wondering if anyone can help with additional date information on the range of dates for the transition from the small core die to the large core die.

I am talking about the date on the die cap.. not the production date of the processor package.

So does anyone have any small die cap covingtons, newer than week 23 1998

or anyone have any large die cap versions earlier than week 22 1998

for reference i have provided a pic of both

[CPUShack]

I too am curious about this, I'll check my trade pile

[g0b]

I have a small die cap week 24 1998 (SL2YN)

g0b

[Worfvx]

I have also small and large die cap on Pentium II Deschutes. Pls, see 80523PY350512 SL2S6 in my collection: http://cpufpu.ic.cz/intel/p_ii.html

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[Leevmeister]

i have a SL2YP 300 mhz covington with small cap from 1998 week 26 (from die cap date)

[Neon_WA]

Thx guys

[johnorun]

I have an SL39Z with small cap date of 1999, week 35, but I don't know how to tell if it's Covington...

[CPUShack]

[johnorun]

[CPUShack]

Look at the pics, yours is a large cap

[johnorun]

[misace]

I have two:
98270510 SL2YN MALAY SMALL
08330019 SL2QG COSTA RICA LARGE

I red somewhere, that intel made 2 versions of Covington core. One was the die without a L2 and second one was Mendocino core with disabled L2 cache. The mendocino core must be a lot larger. There is someone who will desolder caps?

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[H3nrik V!]

Just reviving this "little" old thread

I've seen some boxed Covingtons, the image on the box is showning an octagonal die cap, with capacitors around ..

Photo here: http://cdn.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/S_Intel-BX80523R300000%20(box%20front).jpg

Does any Covington (or Mendocino for that sake) look like this IRL?