tobiasschnell wrote:Have you any personal experience with this configuration or you have just heard about this.
Ok, I'll put my 2c worth in. It was indeed the fastest socket 5/7 chip Intel manufactured until the MMX line replaced it, then the top speed was 233MHz - wow what an improvement (not counting the mobile pentiums up to 300MHz). A quick search will prove this, or even visit Intels website. It couldn't be easier.
Many years ago I built a system with an ASUS motherboard and a Genuine Intel Pentium 200. The chip I bought was one of those 'last of line' processors, quite literally within two weeks of my purchase the MMX chips were on the market and I thought I'd wasted my money. Now, it'd be a good idea to properly identify your CPU as these end of era chips were pentium MMX chips with the MMX disabled - yes, really, 'the pin was not connected to the die'. But you did get the benefit of the 32kB level 0 cache, up from 16kB, and a better chip layout, which was good for about a 10% performance boost, kind of a nice farewell to the old man. Can't confirm I had one, the motherboard used the HX chipset which was 'the fastest' pentium chipset intel made, but speed tests always rated my system above 210MHz (on bootup it was 199MHz, and in those days, ASUS didn't go in for overclockability, had 60/66MHz FSB and up to 3x multiplier on the board only, so you can work out what the default was :o) System ran rock solid too, and was seriously fast. (After six months I doubled the RAM, I'd started using Windows 95, 'what intel gives, Microsoft takes away'. The processor was more than up for it, the only other upgrade I gave the system was a PowerVR 3d add on card).
Ah, but just a few months later the super 7 boards and AMD K6-2 were where the real action was at ;o)
What your chip is worth? Peanuts. It would have to be quite spectacularly new (still in shrink wrap) to interest any collectors, or from some ultra rare fab that only made a handful of them. If you can get interest above $10 by auction, It would be a good sale. Pentiums are not that scarce yet. The motherboards on the other hand don't seem to survive as well - or ther are hundreds of them hidden in somebody's warehouse... wish he'd sell some of them!