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Overclocking 400mhz
Name: lcswoosh05 (by VanillaIce_378) Date: January 21, 2007 at 11:44:43 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: PII MMX 400mhz, 512mb ram Product: HP, model: US90865962
Comment:
How do I overclock a system that is a 400mhz Pentium 2 MMX with 512mb ram and 10 gig hard drive.
Name: wemby089 Date: January 21, 2007 at 14:55:10 Pacific
Reply:
You will notice no improvement in overclocking as your system is just too old for modern software
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: January 21, 2007 at 17:34:12 Pacific
Reply:
OEM systems are notorious for having no frill BIOS', so your options are going to be limited to (if you are lucky) dip switches on the motherboard or software overclock utilities like SoftFSB, SpeedFan, SetFSB and the rest, but don't expect anything you are able to do will appreciably speed up the system's productivity.
Name: jackbomb Date: January 21, 2007 at 22:29:40 Pacific
Reply:
If your BIOS has cpu options, take your bus speed up a notch from 100MHz to 112MHz. Your CPU will run at 450MHz. I wouldn't go any higher than that. The P2s have external L2 cache, making them a lot more sensitive to overclocking than modern CPUs with integrated cache.
If there are no BIOS options (or jumpers on the motherboard) to adjust clock speeds, I'd forget it. Windows-based overclocking software isn't very reliable.
My Super P3: Pentium III-S 1.4GHz @ 1.58GHz, 512K L2 X800XT All-in-wonder, overclocked to 580/600. 250GB HD 2 gigs of PC2100 RAM QDI Advance 12 mobo, this baby rocks! SB Audigy 2
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