Can a pentium 166 non-MMX replace a 90 pentium?

[astroview]

Do they have the same FSB, because if they do I should be able to switch them, right?

(same socket too)

 

[chemwiz]

A 90 runs at 60MHz FSB, with a 1.5 multiplier. A 166 runs at 66MHz FSB with a 2.5 multiplier. So it just depends if the board supports the higher multiplier, some only went to 133 (but they're not multiplier locked, so you could at least run it at that speed.)

 

[Peter]

Depends on the mainboard.

Early socket-5 mainboards don't have multiplier jumpers, which would mean you're stuck at 1.5x - for 100 MHz max. The next iteration had one jumper for 1.5x or 2.0x and stronger voltage regulation, for up to 133 MHz CPUs. Take three finally had two multiplier jumpers for up to 3.0x, and even stronger voltage regs for up to 200 MHz CPUs.

Then came the switch to socket-7, still two jumpers, and the capability to run split-voltage processors, using separate CPU core and rest-of-mainboard voltage regulators.

Regards, Peter

 

[astroview]

I have a Gateway Socket 5 mobo made by Intel, its from December of 95. Anyway of finding out if it will do up to a 200 like you said Peter?

 

[Kingofcomputer]

if my memory is correct,
socket 5 is for up to 133
socket 7 is for 166 or above.