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My experience was a little different... I bought an IDT WinChip 240 to
upgrade an older (single voltage, socket7) MSI motherboard, and could
not get it to work at any speed higher than 150Mhz!  After upgrading my
BIOS, and trying every possible (documented and undocumented) setting on
my motherboard I gave up on the WinChip.  The vender I ordered it from,
(PC Progress at http://www.pcprogress.com/ ), was very good about
allowing me to exchange that chip for an Intel P54c 166... and even
refunded the $4 price difference between the chips to my credit card! 
The pentium 166 is working perfectly, so I would have no problems
recommending pcProgress.

Paulus Adisoemarta wrote:
> 
> In article <38C598676A8264B0.7B2C244457B96C43.E94546265DA14603@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
> Pak Wan  <pwan@speedchoice.com> wrote:
> >IDT winchip is a good solution IF the bios can support it. Many older
> >motherboards WILL NOT support the IDT WinChip.
> 
> The BIOS might not say it right at boot time whenever you use IDT Winchip,
> but so what if the performance really jumped to that of a Pentium 200.
> 
> On 18 machines that I've upgraded overhere, the BIOS might say a 486,
> or a Pentium-S or something else, but all of them go to the proper performance.
> 
> The motherboard varies from Socket5 vintage (1995) and Socket7.
> 
> So, don't be afraid if your BIOS said something else ;)
> 
> YMMV and IMHO,
> 
> Paulus Adisoemarta
> N5SNN / YG1QN