The Mother of All CPU Charts Part 1

1998 To 2000: Socket 7 - AMD CPUs

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K6-2/233 to K6-2/550May 1998 to February 2000
K6-2+/400 to K6-2+/550April 2000 to September 2000
K6-III/400 to K6-III/500February 1999 to September 2000

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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  • Rare Intel Pentium P5 wafer with chips:
    http://www.chipsetc.com/intel-journey-inside-educational-chip-kits.html
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