A what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_%28processor%29

holy crap, time flys, i remember when these were new.

Wait. They're BGA? How can they be BGA and compatible with Socket 7 motherboards? Compatible with Socket 7 implies that they actually fit in the socket so how can they fit in the socket if they don't have pins?

some of them in the pictures look like they had pins or had a bga lay out exactly like s7/370/A

I read they were a derivative of the MediaGX. The MediaGX was a Cyrix chip, incompatable with the Socket 7 pinout.

Tetrium wrote:

I read they were a derivative of the MediaGX. The MediaGX was a Cyrix chip, incompatable with the Socket 7 pinout.

In the description for the GX and LX it says socket 7 compatible.

sliderider wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

I read they were a derivative of the MediaGX. The MediaGX was a Cyrix chip, incompatable with the Socket 7 pinout.

In the description for the GX and LX it says socket 7 compatible.

Strange...

It also mentions support for DDR-400 though

I had a quick look at both Socket 7 pinout and the Geode pinout and they appear to be vastly different though.

But still, having another chip going at 600Mhz for Socket 7 would be very nice 😀
Edit:Reading a bit more, I don't expect this to happen though.
And at any rate, does anyone of us actually have such a chip?

I tried looking around. I couldn't find anything that convinced me these chips are available in socket7 pinouts.

I did a bit of research, Socket 7 Geodes are continuations of the old Cyrix MediaGX platform (Which was in turn bought up by National Semiconductor and sold to AMD). They use a 320pin Socket 7-like platform but have parts of the system chipset (Video, Audio, Memory controller, PCI controller, etc) on the CPU die, I would imagine that would make them incompatible with a standard Socket 7 system.

I saw those, but they only seemed to go up to 266MHz or so.

Which means that the description on the wiki is misleading but hey, what else is new when it comes to wiki 😜