[Gllug] socket 4

Ian Norton bredroll at atari.org
Fri Feb 8 17:43:35 UTC 2002


On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:23:46PM +0000, Christian Smith wrote:
 
> Socket 4 is the origional Pentium socket, used for P60 and P66 processors.
> I believe these processors were 5v parts at release. Socket 5 processors
> started the move towards lower voltage processors.
> 
> The overdrive chip you have will be a later Pentium adapted to run in the
> old Socket 4 sockets. It probably also has a voltage regulator just under
> the heatsink?
> 

hmm, cool, thanks, im waiting for the hardware to totally dry out before i see
if any of it works :-) ill let everyone know in a few days if i caused a fire
or not 

bredroll

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