WolverineDK wrote:
Very nice page you found there! 😀
Jorpho wrote:I hadn't actually heard of those voltage adapters before. I guess they were in specialized upgrade kits? (I remember reading about something by Evergreen that might have been a little like that.)
Yup, upgrade kits. Basically a CPU with a PCB in between it and the motherboard socket to set different multipliers and/or change voltage. Sometimes you need a new BIOS too though.
I believe you can stick a Centaur Winchip2 in socket 5, btw. The original Winchip2 and 2A do not use the split voltage. They have MMX and 3DNow. Would probably be as fast as Pentium MMX per-clock. Maybe a bit faster for integer-based calculations.
http://www.sandpile.org/impl/c2.htm