🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 11:32:20 +0100, Ken Doughty
<kenneth@pkdousta.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[SNIP]
>
>VERY interesting!! 
>I can't remember exactly how the chip was marked, (it's working so no-
>way will I pull it out to just look at it!) it certainly said INTEL MMX
>but I DID notice that it did not show a speed. It was a gift, and I was
>told it was "a 2nd hand 266". 

   The speed is always marked on a real Intel MMX.  It is the last
three digits of the part number. (You may not have noticed this.)
    This is marked both on the top and the bottom.  So you could lift
the assembly out and check it fairly easily.

>The Gigabyte site lists a 266 as OK on this board in a list of
>compatible chips, but continue to show 233 as the fastest in their on-
>line manual - life is never easy! 

   The only 266 that I suspect that this board knows about would be
the Cyrix - which gets this by using the unusual bus speed of 83MHz.
(And in any case this is a 'PR' rating.)

   Regards,
         Harry.