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- From: chris@inconel.uucp (Christian)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: P24T-compatible Overdrive Sockets?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.091146.29736@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:11:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.011745.14524@netcom.com> <1993Jan5.051101.15835@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- In article <1993Jan5.051101.15835@a.cs.okstate.edu> worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA) writes:
- >From article <1993Jan5.011745.14524@netcom.com>, by feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel):
- >> I've heard that some overdrive sockets will accept P24T (Pentium)
- >> chips and that these sockets have an extra row of pins. Could someone
- >> confirm this and provide further details? Thanks.
- >
- >In the January 1993 PC Magazine, between pages 48-49 ZEOS Int'l has one
- >of those annoying, hard, glossy, 3-page, fold-out advertisements, and it
- >shows a picture of a Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket with the 486dx266
- >in it, and the caption says it is compatible with the new "Pentium-style"
- >CPU's due in 1993. It has an extra row and column of pin-holes.
- >
- >-Jason Worley
-
- So, the question is, how miserably will the Pentium perform on a normal 486
- motherboard? The Pentium is 100MHz (am I correct?), so, will it have built
- in clock doubling type hardware so it can talk to a everything else that is
- geared at 33/50MHz? What about the data path? Will the there be a couple
- of wait states so it can slice up the data and send it in little parcels to
- the Pentium?
-
- Too bad you can't find any benchmarks yet.
-
- -Chris
-