what was the fastest s7 chip

>HyperlogiK< · May 3, 2005

What was the fastest (non super socket 7) socket 7 chip (and don't say a K6-2+ running on a modded socket 7 board). I mean chips made for the regular socke 7 platform. Was it the K6 or those Cyrix/IBM 586MX chips (they beat pentium MMXs by quite a way).

Zulu-1 · May 5, 2005

i would think the Pentium MMX 233mhz
i had a cyrix300, and my friend had a MMX 233mhz, and it was WAY faster then my cyrix
i had 128mb ram too.. he had 64... :-/

ropey · May 10, 2005

AMD K6-3 @ 550MHz on the Super socket 7 (very few sold)

Intel Pentium MMX @ 266MHz (very few sold)

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Sjaak · May 11, 2005

Yeah the K6-2 got quite high...i think i have seen even 600Mhz ones.

Overclocked a 500Mhz one to 650+ in the previous age. :santa:

>HyperlogiK< · May 11, 2005

hmm... there was a 570Mhz (and maybe a 580Mhz) K6-2+ on super socket 7 though I'm told that very few ES were made, don't know about 600Mhz.
didn't know about the 266 P-MMX, thanks.

muddocktor · May 11, 2005

>HyperlogiK< said:
What was the fastest (non super socket 7) socket 7 chip (and don't say a K6-2+ running on a modded socket 7 board). I mean chips made for the regular socke 7 platform. Was it the K6 or those Cyrix/IBM 586MX chips (they beat pentium MMXs by quite a way).

AFAIK, the K6-300 MHz proc was the fastest regular socket 7/66MHz processor that was made. I think anything made faster than that used a higher bus speed, which the old Intel chipsets couldn't handle.

Sjaak · May 11, 2005

muddocktor said:
AFAIK, the K6-300 MHz proc was the fastest regular socket 7/66MHz processor that was made. I think anything made faster than that used a higher bus speed, which the old Intel chipsets couldn't handle.

Thats why there was super socket 7 which could handle 100 FSB (or was it 83) IIRC

Gnufsh · May 11, 2005

Super Socket 7 was 100MHz. Some Socket 7 boards could be overclocked to have an 83Hz FSB.

muddocktor · May 11, 2005

Gnufsh said:
Super Socket 7 was 100MHz. Some Socket 7 boards could be overclocked to have an 83Hz FSB.

Yeah, but it put the pci bus way out of spec and a lot of pci cards and ide hard drives couldn't handle it. 75 MHz fsb was very doable though.

Dylruss · May 11, 2005

I never had a problem running Cyrix chips at 83mhz fsb. The K6 chips were pretty good for their time.

I even had a 150Mhz, "Media GX" Cyrix chip/board. It was the first onboard processor/gpu that I know of. In fact the Via C3 chips are from that technology.

Gnufsh · May 11, 2005

I thought most of the C3 tech was from Centaur:
http://www.dansdata.com/c3.htm
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1155329,00.asp

Dylruss · May 11, 2005

Gnufsh said:
I thought most of the C3 tech was from Centaur:
http://www.dansdata.com/c3.htm
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1155329,00.asp

I stand corrected, meh. :shrug:

The original design was to be from that technology, but as you can see I haven't kept up on it.

ropey · May 11, 2005

Most 266mmx's made it to the notebook market. This also applied to the K6-3 500/550's. Very few went retail. I had never had to my sight any retail of either although some have said they have.

In University we had Seanix 266mmx's in the multi-media lab so it is certain that they did go to desktop on the socket 7 platform.

R

P4mustangtime · May 23, 2005

Hmm! I should go see my friend and tell him about that thread - he has like about 8 old computers with PI and PII cpus, I'm sure I saw one 166 MHz and one MMX PII computer in there. I might even get to learn a few things by running them with my friend at his place.

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