My daughter uses this computer for unsophisticated games. We will be getting her a real computer at Christmas but I would like to speed it up a little if possible. We play Age of Empires with her on a home network and she lags quite a bit when we get into battle.. I was running Win2k and it sped the game up a lot but the computer ran very slow. I went back to 98SE and would like to see if I can speed it up just a little for her.

I have a link to the manual for this computer.

http://www.azza.com.tw/FTP/Manuals/5IVH2.PDF

Do I have to change jumpers or is it just bios settings to be changed? Would I have any noticable difference by clocking to 150 or 166 mhz? I have never even tried to overclock before. I also have downloaded a listing of speed settings but I have no idea how to get there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

OVV

My advise to you is to leave it alone. This way, your daughter could still play games until Christmas.

Besides, you don't benefit much overclocking an old 133mhz PC. Win98SE will run faster than Y2K in your old but faithfull PC.

1. Windows 95b would be even faster.
2. Harddrive, memory and graphics card may still negate any oc efforts
3. The 133 is more useful as is. real_cool gives good advice
4. If you have no use for it at Christmas, it would make a swell gift for someone without the resources to buy a computer. Many of us give these away on a regular basis.

I'll send you a PII 350 CPU and abit M/B w/ 128mb ram and 4mb vid for $50 + shipping. and a PSU if needed.

I wouldn't want to fry the thing and have her pissed at me. I guess it's more of an issue for me than it is for her. She never complains about it.
I still have the 95 cd that came with it, but I think it is original 95. It was bought in 95 or 96.
I guess I better leave well enough alone.

Thanks for the advice.

OVV

Yes you can overclock your Pentium 133, but my question is which Pentium is it? Is it the Pentium 133 non-MMX or 133 MMX? If its non-MMX, then you can overclock to something like 60x2.5=150Mhz or 66x2.5=166Mhz. If you have the Pentium MMX, the only thing you can do is to bump up the front side bus, thx to Intel, the Pentium MMX series are all multiplier are all locked.

Pentium S 133
Intel 82371sb chipset

The link for the manual is in my first message.

I don't think it is locked but I have no clue as to how set it up, jumpers or bios.

As for now, I've set up a dual boot with 98 and 2k. She can use the 2k for Empires as it runs the game good and the 98 for other apps as it runs the system faster.

I prbably won't mess with the configuration till after we replace it, but your help is appreciated.

OVV

Try the jumper settings for the 150 and 166MHz cpu on page 9 of the manual.
Sadly they don't write which jumper does what because otherwise I would suggest the same as TMP-Man.

You can still check the following site. Hopefully they have a bit more information:

http://th99.pley.org/#1

You board is build by Azza so check the Pentium line for AP-C and see if it's there (sorted in alphabetic order). I tried but at the moment I can't open that link.
I just found the site myself after reading a post here. I just setup my old Pentium 133 with 64MB and old hardware from 2 486's to play some music and for my nephew to play (believe it or not!) to play Age of Empires 1 and 2. I overclocked it to 150MHz (3x50MHz) but I'm still not sure if it really helps. The cpu is a bit faster but the FSB and ram is slower. Still 3DMark1999 (use it to check if the OC really works) say it's a bit faster!

Good Luck!

You are wrong TMP-Man. I have 2 P MMX CPU's and you can rase the multipiler. ALL Intel CPU's after 1997 had there multipiler locked. Vary few P MMX were made after that date but those are the one's that are locked.

I found that the P166MMX can be overclocked as far as the P200MMX. I think they were the same thing, Intel just bumped the P166MMX to P200MMXand riped people off. Anyways I found the fastest stable choice was 100*2.5 (250MHz) I did get them runing at 66*4 (266MHz). But it wasn't as fast in the old benchmark programs I used.

So what i'm getting at is if your motherboard supports 100MHz FSB I would go onto ebay and buy a P166MMX or a P200MMX (whatever is cheaper). I bet you could pick one up for $5 or $6 with shipping. Running at 100*2.5 would be way faster then what your running.