socket7 and k6

[Guest]

can i throw in a k6 into my old pentium socket7 cpu slot or am i going to have to get a new motherboard

 

[Crashman]

Yes. Depending on the board, you have four options from the least to the most expensive
1)If your board supports lower voltages, such as 2.2V that most K6-2s use, you can simply drop one in. Maximum multiplier settings setermine your maximum speed, except that 2x is interpreted as 6x with the 350 and above, meaning if your board is set at 133MHz, your processor will magically jump to 400MHz.
2)If your board does not support manual voltage adjustment but does support the Pentium MMX processor (aka P55C), you can still use the K6-2 with 2x interpreted by the processor as 6x, but you'll have to run it at 2.8v (standard Pentium MMX voltage), requireing a high-quality heatsink/fan (the big Celeron socket fans are perfect for the task).
3)If neither option is available you can get a converter as outlined in Tom's article a couple weeks ago.
4)You can get an overdrive from www.evertech.com with the converter already attached.

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