1996 To 1998: Socket 5 - AMD And Intel CPUs

As the successor to Socket 4, Socket 5 arrived on the market, and with it came the Pentium 75. As an option, a pipelined burst cache could be connected to the motherboards, which boosted performance considerably. For lots of money, you could get modules with 256 kB or 512 kB. Asus was among the first to provide boards with the "cache on a stick" (COAST) socket - and at that time, the price difference between competitors was not that great.

Hardly seen today: A 256 kB cache module on a Socket 5 board based on an Intel 430FX chipset

The Intel Pentium 75 worked with a bus speed of 50 MHz and a multiplier of 1.5

With dimensions of 55 x 55 mm, the Intel Pentium 60/66 was the largest desktop CPU - until now

1994 To 1997: Socket 7 - Intel CPUs