With the Pentium 166 MMX, Intel first introduced the MMX multimedia expansions, which required a motherboard with split voltage (2.8/3.3 volts). Anyone who owned a Socket 5 board could fall back on an adapter.
Split-voltage adapter for Socket 5
Socket 5 to Socket 7 adapter on an Asus P/I-P55TP4XE
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