CPU - P54C??

[rvking57]

A friend of mine asked me if I would help him update an old PCI Pentium. When we looked into the tower and the manual, we find we are looking for a processor labeled as P54C..... What does that mean?? I have been shopping for a processor on the web and haven't seen a single one mentioned. Is it the socket?? and is anything else compatible to it?? Thanks for any help..

[Jenni]

The P54C pentiums are NOT MMX. The P55C Pentium MMXs are dual voltage, and it sounds like this motherboard won't support them. I think all of the retail places are only offering the 233MMX as their bottom end pentium right now. A place called Compgeeks (www.compgeeks.com) has the 166 and 200 mhz non-MMX chips, but I'm sure you can get one cheaper somplace else.

[WJWheels]

P54C is just the p75 to p200 chip version. Intel then went to P55C (duh). They were used in socket-5 and socket-7 boards.

[rvking57]

Thanks WJW;
So if I get a P166, socket 7, it will work, (after I set the jumpers), right?? BTW, what is a ZIF socket.

[This message has been edited by rvking57 (edited 05-29-2000).]

[WJWheels]

Zif socket is where the chip goes.. it has the little lever on the side to lock the chip in place.

About the only place to find the older/smaller chips any more are computer shows or independent shops. Most all you can hope to find will be pulls.

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[Charliey]

The board MIGHT be able to run an MMX processor, what board is it?

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