GIRunit wrote:
You are aware that the MMX series of CPUs have different requirements to the
vanila Pentiums? IIRC the MMX need a seperate vcore of 2.8V, (as opposed to
the 3.3V of the standard Pentium), they won't run in motherboards not
designed for them.
--
Shaun.

i checked the core voltage on my chip using motherboard monitor. it
was using a flat 3 volts. will it be able to run off of that?

p.s. im gonna overclock my pentium 133 2 nite just to see what she can
do. if the mobo pukes the chip, o well! its a better reanson to get a
new one!

GIRunit wrote:
Hmmm, that doesn't sound right. Perhaps something's getting tired, it should
be 3.3V

An MMX chip will only run in a board that can provide the split voltage,
with the 2.8V 'core' voltage. (To this day Motherboard Monitor's default
'dashboard' has two readings for 'core', usually core1 and core 2. That goes
back to the Pentium MMX days.)

The only way to know if your board supports them is if you can see a set of
jumpers that seem to relate to this feature. Some other brands of CPUs
required different 'core' voltages, from 2.2V (later AMDs) through to 2.9V
(Cyrix/IBMs).

However, your board may just have the option for MMX CPUs, the 2.8V. Or
(more likely) it won't support MMXsplit voltage at all. If there's something
that looks like a model number on the board feed it into Google and see if
you can find anything out.

Hehee! Good luck.
--
Shaun.

i looked up the specs for the mobo from the gateway site, mine can
carry an mmx chip. only thing about it is that i need to get a new
chip cuz my old one died before i could clock it! i cut it on ant the
bios was all :retard: . it didnt boot my hard drive or report a
processing speed. all of my other hardware checks out tho. i hope i
get a chip soon!