Re: Will P5 System Prices Drop Soon?

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From: William Taylor
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article <4bhhpt$cg9@aladdin.iii.org.tw> Kim Monson,
KMonson@cyberstation.net writes:
>Intel's Zappa MB seems to only support up to 133 MHz. However, there is talk 
>of future Pentium overdrive chips like today's 486 DX4s that run faster 
>within the CPU, but run at the system clock rate externally. Apparently this 
>would work in a board such as the Zappa.

I'm confused. Pentium's are using a clock multiplier. It seems to me that
all they need is the correct external clock from the motherboard: 50, 60,
66Mhz. The cpu then takes that and multiplies it to get the correct
internal speed. 

Why can't you plug a P5/166 chip in a P5/100 board (66Mhz) and have it
run? The only problem I can think of is the BIOS. 

Please explain,

WT

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Date: 1995/12/27
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