i had ask a question yesterday and not many people answered... just one, really! but any ways the answer blow me away .... so i'm more stuck than what i was.... so this is my new question.... can you overclock any pc... any brand name/s.. if yes.. please tell me how to overclock my compaq 5050 333mhz.... please!!!! i want to increase it just a tad bit.

Yes you can.

You have a 333 right? Pentium 2, Celeron, AMD or Cyrix?

You need to get a more modern heatsink and fan, and change the multiplier, to the next highest number, and if that works ok, and it is not scorching hot, try the next.

Be careful though. Overclocking can immediately kill your cpu, which would be a shame.

Also, in most cases, overclocking doesn't make much of a performance difference & it can cause stability problems too.

No....all computers cant be overclocked. And compaq maybe one of the brands you cant overclock. Although im not familiar with that board. If you can change the FSB in the bios then do it in steps.

thanks you guys for trying to help.... but when i go to the computer setup by pressing F10 (delete doesn't work on this computer) there is nothing in those menus that says that i can change the FSB or anything like that.... this is for xxfrancisxxusa i got intel celeron, MMX, 333mhz that is what my pc says and i can't change the multiplier... my board has this frequency chart right above the jumpers.... and when i try to move it around it won't do nothing...

You should be able to change the jumpers to lets say, the next step up.

It should boot. If not, then it m ay be over heating and freezing when booting.

That is why the need for extreme cooling.

I up the multiplier on my p233 to get 266, and it just about owkrs with no extra cooling. But I used to have a 266 I got up to 433 with some hardcore cooling equipment a few years ago.

Ok, not all computers can be overclocked, but most can, and some are more difficult than others. Some are frickin soldered at the jumpers to stop you upgrading them. Some have crappy bioses (emachines) which don't allow you to do ANYTHING.

You may be able to use a program called CPUcool or SoftFSB to allow you to raise the FSB speed. Your CPU is a type that is highly overclockable by this method. It has an L2 cache that runs at CPU core speed and it can actually be overclocked higher than a Pentium II of equal clock speed which has an L2 that runs at only half core speed. The risk to doing this, besides frying your CPU is overheating your RAM and your graphics card, because they all experience an increase in speed as well. CPUcool can take advantage of low CPU use times to actually provide software cooling of the CPU (it won't help during gaming or other high CPU use times and doesn't help cool RAM or Vid card).