Great Upgrade! I maxed this board out to 500MHz or "half a Gig". and works GREAT! Vcore volts: using 2.0 - all VID0,VID1,VID2 are OPEN, You also can use 2.1 - VID0 1+2, VID1 2+3, VID2 2+3, You can also use 2.2(MAXIMUM)- VID0 OPEN, VID1 1+2, VID2 OPEN USE 2.0 OR 2.1 FOR SAFEST Vcore volts, 2.2 is pushing it. Multiplier used: "2". The cpu recognizes this as "6". Jumpers: BF0 2+3, BF1 1+2, BF2 1+2. Bus speeds used: 1) 75MHz jumpers: FS0 1+2, FS1 2+3, FS2 1+2, FS3 2+3. THIS WILL SHOW CPU SPEED AT 449MHz. 2) 83MHz jumpers: FS0 2+3, FS1 1+2, FS2 1+2, FS3 OPEN. 3) 83MHz jumpers: FS0 2+3, FS1 1+2, FS2 1+2, FS3 2+3 (BETTER PERFORMANCE) THIS WILL SHOW CPU SPEED AT 499MHz. HOPE THIS INFO HELPS!

450 to 500 is not a great accomplishment, sorry to say...back in the day it was something, though

It's more than 10% and that on a K6-2 !!! Lately I tried to overclock a K6-2 500 to 550MHz and it didn't work because the cpu started to do strange things. So good luck!

The K6-2 was not a great overclocker...besides, raising the FSB is where the real performance boost is, not the multiplier

The SP97-V was designed as an inexpensive replacement board for updating old AT systems with a minimum amount of fuss. It came with onboard video and could use most if not all of the old PC's existing components. The "V" stands for Value, they sold for around $100. For not too much money, you could breath new life into that 3 to 5 year old clunker that you paid thousands for. It was designed to use up to P233MMX CPUs and up to 256MB of RAM. The SP97-V was a very versatile mobo that could use either AT or ATX power supplies. It had 4 PCI slots and 3 ISA slots. You could disable the onboard video and use an addin card plus it had features like USB, and the ability to cache up to 256MB of memory which most Socket7 could not do. I used the SP97-V to upgrade a number of old PCs. I also built one from scratch for my sister. I used a Cyrix M300-II 66Mhz 3.5x PR300 CPU, 128MB of EDO memory, a Number9 2MB video card, SB16 sound card, USR Sportster 33.6 modem and an HP scanner ISA SCSI card. It worked great for her for a long time. I eventually traded her a spare Asus T2P4 system with a K6-3 400, 256MB of memory and an ATI XPert98 video card. I recently broke out the old SP97-V system and started playing around with some Linux distros. I have a K6-2 500 in it now but it only runs stable at 450. I upped the RAM to 128 and put in an old Matrox Millennium II 8MB card. The old dog runs Win98, Win2k and Linux rock solid and it's fast enough for web surfing and Office programs. I'm using it as a test bed for new software. There's a revised BIOS floating around that someone modified to fix some limitations on the SP97-V. These were very good little (AT Form Factor) boards except that there was a batch with bad floppy controllers which gave them a bad rap. Asus repaired or replaced the boards long after the warranties were up. Chas.