First post, by Sphere478
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Has anyone ever made a gerber for the socket 7 interposers? It would be cool to make new golden tiger interposers so we could put these mobile tillamooks laying around to good use.
For those of you who don’t know, the pentium 1 didn’t end with the 233 mmx, there was a mobile socket 7 processor made that went to 266 in socket 7 and at least 300? Or 350? On non socket 7 mobile boards (see pic) well, at least that’s what that’s the official intel options went up to, 😁...
Turns out some clever chinese people got together and made a socket 7 300 pentium 1 using genuine intel silicon, and their own socket 7 interposer. problem is the silicon used didn’t always match the mhz listed on their interposer package 🤣. But it didn’t matter much as they could basically all do speeds over 300mhz from my understanding, of course, the flagship of them being the 300mhz golden tiger. (Pictured)
The official socket 7 tillamook chips had issues with desktop boards though btw which as of 2021 have been largely solved with mods which you can find here Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?
credit to RichB93 for the image. (Also added here incase link goes down.)
Also here is a video with more info: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=736iXRdXuTE
Anyway, I think it would be a awesome project to make new interposers that people could order for these old chips to give them life. What do you all think?