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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)
> 
> Dave
> 
Thats for beating me to it.  I think there is some confusion here, when
I refer to a overdrive chip, this is the chip with the extra pin.  You
will need this chip if your board specifices it.  A dx?-??? is generic
name for chips which run faster internally then externally, of course
this includes the overdrive chip.

Personally I blame Intel marketing for this mix-up (and where did they
get dx4 from ?).

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Rajesh Varia     raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk