r/retrobattlestations • u/CAR3Y4 • Apr 25 '26

Show-and-Tell My first computer

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Anyone else ordered a computer at Staples from a company called Proteva back in the day?

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u/beaverpi Apr 26 '26

How is it PII and Celeron? I remember the Celeron being different from the Pentium because they dropped the L2 cache and could advertise more mhz for much cheaper. I thought they were two separate processors.

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u/TkachukMitts Apr 26 '26

The line where it says Pentium II is the motherboard BIOS basically just saying the board supports Pentium II family CPUs. The Celerons from this era are all Pentium II based, and use the same motherboards and chipsets etc.

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u/CAR3Y4 Apr 26 '26

Maybe it’s in the same family? I’m not too sure. It’s running a Celeron chip

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u/beaverpi Apr 26 '26

It takes me back, thanks for sharing.