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"Kent Hosterman" <kwh@inow.com> wrote:

> MMX support can depend on what motherboard you are running... While all K6
> chips are MMX enabled, if you have anything but the last couple of
> generations mb, then *it* won't support MMX and you're SOL. I run a K6-200
> on a ASUS P55T2P4, but because I have an "old" 2.3ver board, and not 3.0 or
> above, I do not have MMX support. This is straight from ASUS tech support. I
> would assume other mbs are similar. K6 is a GREAT chip, though. On Wintune I
> get results VERY comparable to Pentium 233s.

This has nothing to do with whether the board supports MMX *instructions* or
not. When Asus say that the earlier versions of the T2P4 don't support MMX,
what they mean is that the board doesn't supply the split-plane voltage
required by the Intel Pentium MMX and the AMD K6. MMX instruction support is
supplied by the OS and/or applications, not the motherboard.

Graeme

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