Motorola SM56 quick start Personal Computer Requirements, Recommended CPUs

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3 Personal Computer Requirements

Motorola performs rigorous, exhaustive testing on its modems. It has developed a list of recommended personal computer features that perform well with the SM56. The information includes qualified CPUs, Level 2 cache requirements, operating systems, RAM requirements, and third-party sound card compatibility. However, in today's dynamic technology markets, it is not possible to test all components and combinations on all systems.

This section outlines minimum system requirements for SM56 operation. On these systems, CPU loading was found to be acceptable and the modem demonstrated good performance over the entire network model.

Important: SM56 operation is not limited to the personal computer systems listed here.

Recommended CPUs

The SM56 modem has been qualified (tested for processor loading and TSB network model coverage) on the following processors:

∙Intel Pentium, 150MHz with MMX, 256K Level 2 (L2) cache minimum

∙Intel Pentium, 200MHz, 256K L2 cache minimum

∙Intel Pentium II

∙Intel Pentium Pro

∙Intel Celeron (Pentium II, 266MHz, no L2 cache)

∙AMD K6-2 with 3DNow!, 256K L2 cache

The SM56 functions satisfactorily on the following systems. However, it has not been fully qualified (it was not tested for processor loading or TSB performance):

∙AMD K6, 233 MHz, 256K L2 cache

∙Cyrix MII, 266MHz, 256K L2 cache

The SM56 does not function on the following CPUs, whose floating-point performance is insufficient:

∙Cyrix MediaGX

∙Cyrix MediaGXM

∙Cyrix 6x86