Socket 7 and Super 7?

[kenner]

There are two older pc's at the senior center running socket 7 motherboards. In storage is a cpu labeled super 7. Is this interchangeable with the socket 7 boards? Need to know whether to save it or discard it.

[pave_spectre]

Quoted from HERE (http://www.mynet.com.sg/Knowledge/CPU%20changes%20time.htm)

What is Super 7?


After Intel aborted the Socket 7 motherboards, other vendors took over. AMD supplied us with new powerfull CPUs, and new chip sets were required.

Since Intel no longer develops CPUs or chip sets for Socket 7 motherboards, AMD and others have done a lot to continue the life of the Socket 7.

Companies like VIA, ALi and SIS are all producing inexpensive and high performing chip sets. These vendors are giving Intel a hard time since their chip sets offer Pentium II performance from the simpler, low-cost Socket 7 motherboards including AGP and 100 MHz bus.

So from that Super 7 is still Socket 7 but with extra features than the original socket, which means the Super 7 processor should work in regular Sock7, but may not work at its full speed if the board doesn't support a high enough bus speed.

[saphalline]

which means the Super 7 processor should work in regular Sock7No. Socket 7 was abandoned by Intel long before such amenities as the VID pin, among others. Super Socket 7 CPU's, which include AMD's K6, K6-2, K6-III, and VIA's early "Cyrix II" series, will not work in regular Socket 7. The FSB, voltage, multiplier, and CPUID are all roadblocks.

You can, however, use any Socket 7 CPU in a Super Socket 7 mobo, but be careful about which CPU's are Socket 7! Early Pentiums were Socket 5/7 and will not work in a SS7 mobo. The lowest cut-off for SS7 support is usually the "P54CS/CQS" core Pentium at 166MHz, as well as AMD's "5k86" core K5 at PR133/166, and VIA's Cyrix MII (the original "M one" was Socket 5).

[kenner]

Thanks for the help. I hate discarding something and then finding I could use it in the future.