[CS-FSLUG] Mobo puzzle

[David M.]

On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:52 pm, Ed Hurst wrote:
> Someone sent me a box of used computer parts. In it was a mobo that
> looked unused. I finally identified it as a Gateway 2000 P5-166. The
> CPU is already on it. There are the usual 3 ISA slots, 4 PCI slots, and
> right where the newer boards have an AGP slot, this one has something
> different. I've never seen it before, but the slot is brown, just a bit
> longer than a PCI, but notched in the middle like a memory slot. It has
> this odd looking chip already in it, and vaguely resembles a SDRAM, but
> isn't long enough. The Gateway site doesn't offer any info. Can anyone
> tell me?

it's an L2 cache. it wasn't until the P6's that put the L2 on the CPU chip.