Intel Pentium SX969 A80502-75 75MHz Socket 5 CPU Processor P1 CPGA

Intel Pentium SX969 A80502-75 75MHz Socket 5 CPU Processor P1 CPGA

The Intel Pentium SX969 is a first-generation Pentium processor running at 75MHz, identified by part number A80502-75 and sSpec SX969. It uses the CPGA (Ceramic Pin Grid Array) package and installs into a Socket 5 motherboard. This is an original P1 Pentium — Intel's first superscalar x86 processor — built on a 0.6-micron BiCMOS process and operating at 3.3V.

Specifications & What's Included

• Brand: Intel
• Processor family: Pentium P1
• sSpec: SX969
• Part number: A80502-75
• Clock speed: 75 MHz
• Front-side bus (FSB): 50 MHz
• Multiplier: 1.5×
• Socket: Socket 5 (CPGA)
• L1 cache: 16 KB (8 KB instruction + 8 KB data)
• Manufacturing process: 0.6 micron BiCMOS
• Core voltage: 3.3V
• Country of manufacture: Malaysia (as marked on chip)
• CPU only — no heatsink or fan included

Applications

The original Intel Pentium launched in 1993 and ran through several speed grades into the mid-1990s, with the 75MHz variant appearing in 1994 as part of the early P1 line. It was used in desktop PCs from that era built around Intel's Socket 5 platform, which succeeded Socket 4 and preceded Socket 7. These processors powered mainstream and business-class desktop computers running MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and early Windows 95 — the dominant computing environment of the mid-1990s. Today, Socket 5 Pentium CPUs are sought by retro-computing enthusiasts and collectors restoring period-correct 486/Pentium-era machines, as well as by vintage gaming hobbyists running period DOS and early Windows software in authentic hardware. The SX969 designation at 75MHz is one of the earlier P1 speed grades, making it a historically significant example of Intel's transition from the 486 architecture to the modern superscalar x86 era.