AMD 5x86-150 and 160

[Jedi08]

Some of these chips are out there and I finally found a manual where these chips are mentioned. Maybe a proof that they are authentic.
It´s for an ABIT AB-PB4 board.

http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/abit/pb4/pb4.exe
http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/abit/pb4/pb4-1.exe

the 160 version runs with 40MHz FSB and the 150 with 50MHz FSB!!!

[xrror]

Those might have just been settings Abit listed "for future CPU." Overclocking amd 5x86 to 3x150 and 4x160 was very common since most 133mhz parts would do it easily. I think it would identify as the "p90" rating on some boards.

So that might be a lead actually for finding if there ever were "official" 150/160 chips. It would be listed 5x86-P90 or something like that.

The holy grail was 4x50 for 200mhz, but I never could get that to POST with any chip/board combination I had =(

Well that or getting the Cyrix 5x86 to 150 or 160 ;D

[Marcin]

Those which I have :
definitely fake - http://www.abc-cpu.com/component/option,com_ponygallery/func,detail/id,3304/Itemid,62/
not sure if genuine or fake - http://www.abc-cpu.com/component/option,com_ponygallery/func,detail/id,151/Itemid,62/

[frag_]

i think the second is fake too - characters "160" is thinner than other letters in string.

[xrror]

I always got the impression that if the 150/160 parts did exist they were most likely to be the surface mount package.

That's complete conjecture though! I also might be thinking of how most of the "upgrade adapters" like evergreen started using those... which annoyed me cause I wanted to use the interposer for other things later!

Did they ever make am5x86 notebooks?

[vinicio]

[xrror]

haha! That's awesome! Do you still have that setup? I'd love to see some benchmarks on it

[Tetrium]

Liquid nitrogen?

[vinicio]