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In article <151149452wnr@dstokes.demon.co.uk>
           david@dstokes.demon.co.uk "David Stokes" writes:

>In article: <816192871snz@wookie.demon.co.uk>  John Beardmore
> <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> >With the overdrive, there is an extra pin, thus don't try to plug into
>> >a board not designed for it.
>> 
>> I thought that overdrive just amounted to clock multiplying 5 volt CPU ?
>> 
>> Granted some of these chips are designed to go into a second socket and
>> have an extra pin, but in the Microwarehouse cataloge describe them all
>> as:
>> 
>>     Intel Overdrive (R)
>> 
>> regardless of if they need a second socket.
>
>Hmmmm....As far as I know, the ones with the extra pins are designed for
> overdrive sockets, 
>whereas another version is available which can go into an ordinary processor
> socket (it has a 
>built in voltage regulator, stepping it down from 5v to 3.3v on motherboards
> which do not support 
>3.3v speeds)

Well, from the catalogues it looks like they all get called overdrive even
if that's not official Intel terminology.

I wonder if it's overdrive (R) or (TM) ?

-- 
John Beardmore