First post, by charliegolf
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Hi
I've recently acquired an Olivetti xana 53-120 which is a pentium 120 in a socket 7 mobo. The mobo is visually identical in every way to a socket 5 mobo found in a different model (Olivetti m24) apart from the cpu sockets being different. Jumpers etc all seem identical. There isn't an AGP port.
I'm wondering why they would release the same mobo with 2 different sockets. I'm hoping it's to use the dual voltage pin in socket 7 for mmx but didn't add the agp for cost (though it could be that they just stopped making socket 5s when mine was made).
The question is if there is anyway to tell? Having never had a super 7 mobo, do you get an extra voltage setting on the jumper or is it something that happens silently in the wiring of the mobo?
I have voltage settings for 3.3 and 3.5 only.
The other question I have is, does mmx really make much of a difference anyway?
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