what is the difference between socket 5 and socket 7

[Strife3]

i havea p120 gateway computer. I have clocked it to 133 but want more. I also have a pentium 233 processor with mmx and i put it in and it makes no difference i can tell. Can i use the technology of the newer chip with my old board? Also was it supposed to work with a socket 5 since it was a socket 7? Oh and i dont think i can change the multiplier so i think im stuck at 133. Please someone help me out here.:)

[eobard]

Socket 5 has a lower clock multiple and fsb settings, it also has much more limited voltage settings. ie: My cyrix in my sig is on a socket 5 board my multiple choices range from 1.5 to 3.5, my fsb choices range from 50 to 75 and my voltage choices are either 3.3v or 3.5v. My K6-2 in my sig is on a socket 7 board, my multiple choices for it range from 1.5 to 6.0, fsb ranging from 66 to 133mhz and 22 different voltage settings ranging between 1.8v and 3.5v. If you put a socket 5 chip in a socket 7 board it will run fine if the fsb, multiple and voltage settings are proper but putting a socket 7 chip in a socket 5 board will most likely result in smoke, the voltage will be too much. Even if it did work it would not run at full speed because of the lowered fsb and multiple settings.

[Morpheus]

depends on the manufacturer & date of fab... I have socket 5 mobos that will run up to 200MHz & are MMX complaint... and I have Socket 7 that doesn't do MMX, but can go 233...

And then there is Super Socket 7... which is something completely different... or a lot different...

Just be careful... Look to see if the boards supports P54C & P55C CPUs (single/dual voltage planes)--your chip is the latter... it should have a jumper set... somewhere... it IS NOT LOCKED in the CPU... but the BIOS can't report your OC either... you'll need to use CPU_ID or similar... :)

[eobard]

Originally posted by Morpheus
depends on the manufacturer & date of fab... I have socket 5 mobos that will run up to 200MHz & are MMX complaint... and I have Socket 7 that doesn't do MMX, but can go 233...

Don't you love it when computer designers are on crack? :rolleyes:

[muddocktor]

I was just about to post that I had cobbled together a system for a friend out of the scrap pile and had used a socket 5 mobo that also had support for a 3.5 multiplier and also split-plane voltage to the proc. I think that it was a MSI board, if I remember right.

[Morpheus]

ROTFLMAO....

:D :D

[eobard]

My socket 5 board will run an intel 166mmx and an AMD K6 166mmx or 200mmx but only those 3 chips and only with an add-on voltage adapter.

[Morpheus]

it is a little known fact the voltage adapter was often used to light the crack pipe in engineering labs as socket 7 was being considered

:beer: :rolleyes: :burn:

[eobard]

That's why my board didn't come with one, one of the techies couldn't get the monkey off his back! :beer: