what is Pentium - S cpu ?

[Anton Keyran]

> "Mathias Bachmann" <mbac...@baden-online.de> wrote:
>
> >We have some Computers in our firm with processors which the BIOS states as
> >Pentium - S cpu愀. What the hell is a Pentium - S ? never heared of that. I
> >found out that these pentium - S machines seems to be really slower than my
> >Pentium machine at home when doing raytracing. Are there any comments on
> >this?
> >
> Somebody told me that they are chips whose multiprocessor stuff
> doesn't work, so they couldn't be used in mp systems. I think the fpu
> still works, though.
>

No, it isn't.

"S" means that this CPU have a SMM(System Management Mode), SMM performs
powersaving(green) modes of CPU work.

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Anton V. Keyran
SPb, Russia.