A Pentium motherboard should use a minimum 3.3v Pentium processor
,which has a 296-pin Socket 5 or Socket 7 configuration that differs from
the 273-pin Socket 4 design.Socket 7 also support newer processors with
MMX technology,including AMD's K6.
Speed
Pentium motherboards should run at 60 or 66MHz and be speed-switchable
between these speeds.For example:Pentium 60,90,120,150 and 180MHz chips run at 60MHz
base motherboard speed.
Cache
All Pentium motherboards should have 256K to 512K of level 2 on-board.
Most Pentium Pro processors have built in level 2 cache.
BIOS
The motherboard should use an industry standard BIOS such as AMI,Phoenix,
Microid Research and Award.It should support Plug and Play,Enhanced IDE or
Fast ATA as well as 2.88M floppy drives.
