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Will this mobo support a Winchip 200mhz?

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MGMorden

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I'm looking at buying a cheapo mobo and processor for a project I'm doing (FreeSCO router). I found this motherboard on e-bay and found an IDT Winchip for $10 shipped in FS/T. Now this board appears to have all the stuff necessary to support this chip (3.5 cpu voltage, socket 7, etc), but it's not specifically listed as supporting it; only the Pentium, Cyrix 6x86 and AMD K5/K6 are listed. Anybody know whether or not the board specifically needs to support the winchip or will it work?
 
Because it's only going to be a router. Winchips though slow, were very stable and ran very cool. Wish I wouldn't have sold mine (way back when I used one of the 225mhz ones).
 
I always find it funny how the uninformed are quick to find a problem with a chip that's prefectly good for the use it will have. I'm kinda surprised he didn't tell you, "you need to get a 1.2 GHz Athlon and over-clock it like crazy!!".

Anyway, I'm assuming that the board was out before WinChip was a factor as it's a 430VX chipset and prolly from 1996 or so. It should work fine--the WinChip was designed for backwards compatibility with most Pentium class boards.

Good luck.
 
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