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- From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
- Subject: Re: P24T-compatible Overdrive Sockets?
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:56:44 GMT
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- >>> 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.
- >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?
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- I am under the impression that the "P24T" is more like a Pentium "SX".
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- I know Intel is making specs on the P24T, or at least specs on a socket
- that will accept the chip, available to just about anyone.
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- I was thinking that the P24T will be a 33mhz chip, maybe 50mhz too, but
- anyways...a 33mhz chip, running internally at 66mhz.
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- Basically, I am thinking the P24T is just a slower version of the Pentium
- which I have read will be first released in true 66mhz & 100mhz speeds.
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