Depends on what you are interested in. I'd personally grab all the overdrives, 200mmx +s, AMDs, and Cyrix cpus.

Same as Caluser2000 said, Socket 7 is my favorite platform.

Also there is a P4 CPU for Socket 423 and two AMD K7-based CPUs in that collection.

At a buck each I'd take all of them, at $5 each I'd take the MII-366 and the two overdrives, but I ain't really motivated to buy otherwise, even though they all go for $15 and up on eBay these days. However if you're looking for things that could potentially go in ATX boards in future, row 1: 4 and 5 ... row 2 and 3: 2,3,4,5. though I guess the pentiums will work in those s7 ATX boards too, but *yawn*.

Although of zero interest to you the DX50 is uncommon

That non bespoke 286 could be interesting depending on its speed grade (4mhz and 25mhz are the most interesting)

High clocking of Cyrix are uncommon
200mhz + Pentiums of any flavor are practical

The newer stuff is up to you, P4 is pretty worthless for me but if you have proper boards, etc why not.

Really depends what you are hoping to get out of this.

And chips don’t exactly take up loads of space so it comes down to cost, if they are almost free or very cheap your not out much.

If they are more expensive you got to figure out if you will use it and what the market value is.

I like the colored anodized heatsinks 😀

What is that tiny chip in the bottom row?

Might be a dustcap for a 387 socket.

Hard to read, but I think the AMD silver top are K6-2 - could be better than the Cyrix ... Super socket 7
And of course, the naked core are Socket A

rmay635703 wrote on 2021-09-04, 19:52:

Although of zero interest to you the DX50 is uncommon

And useful!
If you have such one, keep it for mobo testing.

I made an offer for these and they arrived a few days later. I only had a single K6 for my Socket 7 and decided that a few more plus some extras seemed reasonable.

The title of the listing makes me feel like an archeologist. "Ancient Bundle"?

pretty good deal for $20

The tiny chip from the bottom row is a socketed 8 Mhz 286.

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There is an Intel 486 DX2-66 Overdrive and a Socket 7 Pentiun Overdrive. The Pentium Overdrive is marked as a Pentium MMX SL24W.

What makes some Pentium Overdrives command a high list price on eBay? What makes an Overdrive desirable when there are plenty of other cheap Pentiums available for Socket 7? The integrated fan would be less desirable I think because it's not replaceable.

I think the Pentium Overdrive would be more interesting if it could be dropped into a 486. But for Socket 7 it doesn't seem very useful.

Possibly you can stick that Pentium overdrive in a socket 5 board that otherwise maxes out at 120, but you'd have to check it out. The DX2 overdrive, well, I never saw a point in those, every DX33 board I've met will take a 5V DX2, must be some reason for it's existence, easier for OEM systems? I dunno.

edit: oh yah, regulator should be on board that pentium OD, so it will upgrade single plane socket 7 boards to mmx that only take p54, like most 430FX and some early HX, VX and TX though all those are more likely overall to support MMX native.

edit2: Doh, today I am just remembering that boards with soldered down CPU exist with an upgrade socket that will only take an overdrive with it's extra "check max spend occurred" pin.

The Pentium MMX OverDrive CPU is only useful on early Pentium motherboards are unable to supply the necessary voltages for a non-OverDrive Pentium MMX. There are also Pentium OverDrive CPUs for 486 motherboards that can support this adequately.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2021-09-09, 02:53:

The Pentium MMX OverDrive CPU is only useful on early Pentium motherboards are unable to supply the necessary voltages for a non-OverDrive Pentium MMX. There are also Pentium OverDrive CPUs for 486 motherboards that can support this adequately.

Could perhaps be interesting in some experiments using the disabled fan to underclock it?
Though I am unsure how the s5 PODs are affected.

Tetrium wrote on 2021-09-09, 21:16:

Could perhaps be interesting in some experiments using the disabled fan to underclock it?
Though I am unsure how the s5 PODs are affected.

Sadly I don't have any OverDrive CPUs to do this experiment. 🙁

If the CPU has the multiplier unlocked downwards then it's possible to underclock it, even more with the FSB set to 50 MHz. The only Pentium CPU where I did underclocking was a normal P233MMX (1.5x multiplier not available due to being actually 3.5x) by changing the multipliers and FSB on a Socket 7 motherboard.

Uh, great find, great deal! Enjoy your stuff, there's definitely nothing "crappy" in it. Each of those processors tells its own story and has its own charme. Depending on it's task area there is not one useless processor in this lot. Kudos! 😀