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Originally Posted by bitor
Thank you for your knowledge and research concerning these matters. I don't have an overdriver , but I recall Intel making one. The "Overdrivers" had a board that the cpu chip sat on. I don't think there was a need for any bios modifications on them. Just plug and chug because of the board. I cannot say about the AMD ones. My friend(yes I remember those days.) got an Intel one years ago. Wow, did it cost a lot of money($300). I do remember him having to reset some mobo jumpers for the bus thought. I still have a 386sx and have the first math co-processor put in a PC.(It's big and has gold all over it) . Anyway, do you know of a place where I could get a keyed 10 pin rs232 ?
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The fastest Intel CPU in the socket 7 Pentium class was the 233Mhz CPU, which is what we currently have. The overdrives you are talking about were for 386 and 486 systems.
Now with that said, Powerleap (evergreen) made a deal just like you are talking about. It isa CPU on a board and the board plugs into the socket. They use the AMD K6 CPU since they had higher speeds for those (Intel had gone Slot 1 and Pentium II by then). Now I read up on these overdrives, and it says right in their documentation that the BIOS had to support the micro codes for that CPU (a BIOS flash). They also had a very long list of BIOS flashes they had for various Motherboard to use this overdrive. Guess what? SNAPs were not listed. As I said before, if you want to try it, have at it. Just let us know how it went (and be prepared for the "I told you so", lol).
I have not bought a cable like that in a very long time. The last one I bought was at Radio Shack, but they don't carry as much of that stuff as they used to, so I don't know if they will have it or not. You could try places online like Jamco.