New to the Pentium codenamed P55C was an increase in L1 cache to 32 KB and the introduction of the MMX instruction set. The L2 cache was still located on the board. The CPUs contained 4.5 million transistors. The Intel 430HX or 430TX were often the chipsets of choice, with the latter having a maximum RAM restriction of 64 MB (cacheable area).

Pentium 166 MMX with instruction set extensions.

Intel's top model for the socket 7 platform: Pentium 233 MMX.

Rear of the Pentium 233 MMX.

This is what it looks like: our system with the Pentium 233 MMX.

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