Pentium I or II 1

[willydude]

Could someone tell me, based on the following info, if my processor is a Pent I or II. I was wanting to purchase the HP7310 printer to use with this pc, but the recommendations are for the PII.

TIA, Bill

System Manufacturer IBM
System Model 6565B7U
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~794 Mhz
BIOS Version IBM BIOS Ver PMKT28.0

 

[vacunita]

Judging by this line:

x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel [red]~794 Mhz[/red]

I'd say neither, probably Pentium III. As I don't think Pentium II went that far up the speed scale. I think it topped off at 500Mhz or so. anything above that should be a PIII.



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[cdogg]

Yep, as far as I know, the PII only went up to about 450MHz. So yeah, you definitely have a PIII in that system which is more than enough to satisfy the specs that printer software is asking for.

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[BadBigBen]

Model 8 CPUs are Pentium III (Coppermine) or Celeron FC-PGA CPUs!

Family 6 = Pentium Pro, Pentium II/III and Celerons.

http://www.paradicesoftware.com/specs/cpuid/index.htm

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[felixc]

I have never seen a printer that is picky on the CPU type. If anything the operating system will dictate everything else, so if your system runs an OS that your printer supports, it should be okay.

 

[kmcferrin]

The printer may not be, but the drivers might be. Before the job is sent the printer the driver has to do the rasterization of the image/text, and that can eat up some CPU resources. Printers that print at higher resolutions can take require more resources than printers that print at lower resolutions.

Basically this is the printer vendors way of saying "don't hook our modern printers up to a computer from 1987, because otherwise it's gonna be ugly", in other words it's a CYA line.

 

[willydude]

I'm using Win2K, which the printer info says is compatible.

Thanks all.

 

[Freestone]

vacunita is correct.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/quickPath.do?quickPathEntry=6565B7U