Re: Intel266MMX chip

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <3715ce4b.2236848@news.demon.co.uk>, Harry Broomhall
<haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk> writes
>On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:55:32 +0100, Tom Bird
><hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>[SNIP]
>>
>>My Gigabyte TX2 can go right down to 2.0v.
>
>   But can it do an I/O voltage of less than 3.3V which is what these
>chips require?  That would be fairly unusual.

I don't think so.

>>What's TCP?  Is that where the pins are all round the edge?
>
>   Sort of - see my other posting.  (You may be thinking of yet
>another system, where the chip pins are 'wrapped' round the chip and
>inserted into a special socket.  TCP is not like this - it is
>soldered.)

Yes, that's what I was thinking about, I have a couple of 286 CPU's like
that.  I even managed to remove the little carrier thing from a dead
motherboard in order to upgrade my 6MHz 286 to 12MHz, trouble is the bus
couldn't take it but that's another story.

TB

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