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Socket 3 motherboards where you don't need to set jumpers?

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First post, by Gojira

Posted on 2025-02-04, 21:56

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Hello,

I recently found out that there are some socket 7 motherboards that have a "plug and play" system for the CPU, where you don't have to set the jumpers for the processor because the board reads them itself.

My question is: is there such an equivalent motherboards but with socket 3?

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Gojira

Reply 1 of 1, by dionb

Posted on 2025-02-04, 22:53

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Only if you want to use one CPU type and speed only...

The problem is that 486-era CPUs don't actually have stuff you can read to discover what kind of CPU they are, let alone how they should be clocked. Best you could theoretically do is move settings to BIOS but even that requires a level of commonality that So3 CPUs simply didn't have.

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