whats Pentium S ?

[ronnaZ]

i had bought a system in 1996. in the startup it would show me the name of the processor as pentium-s. the speed of the proccessor was 100mhz running on 133mhz.

i would like to know if its a original intel proccesor. if yes then why would it show me P1 instead of p-S.

 

[AndyHui]

Yes, it is an original Pentium.

On the AWARD 4.51(PG) BIOSes, the Socket 7 Pentiums were denoted as PENTIUM-S.

Other BIOSes, such as AMI, did not have this.

The "-S" on AWARD BIOSes indicates that the Pentium processor has power saving features. Eventually very late revisions of the AWARD BIOSes got rid of this, and was gone by the time of the Pentium II.

Pentium Pro AWARD BIOSes still show PENTIUM PRO-S for many boards.

 

[AkumaX]

andy the guru...

 

[playgroundtwister]

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Betcha he could tell your fortune too

 

[ronnaZ]

thankx