Could I simply bring the proccessor speed from 300 to 333 on a pentium 2 in the bios and get some sort of boost in speed?

IBM usually have a Fixed BIOS and even if you could the difference would not be noticable. I think you have maxed out the PC CPU/Mem speed wise, the only solution is to tqweak W98 so it runs less background task: http://www.careyholzman.com/win98_tips.htm

Going from 300 to 333 will only get you about 10% boost, which you will probably not even notice at all. Worth the trouble?? Internet search engines are your friends. Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. "The Matrix"

There are jumper setting you have to change on the motherboard. Go to your motherboards manufacturer's website, download a manual. From there you should be able to find the jumper settings and change them. But, BE CAREFUL because i have fried many a CPU in my time!

The only way you would be able to OC a Pentium2 or later Intel CPU would be by changing the FSB because the mulitplier is fixed inside of it by Intel and can not be changed. On those old systems that was usually done by jumpers on the board. I got my Pentium2 350MHz up to 392MHz by OCing it to FSB 112MHz without any problems on my Asus P2B Revision 1.04 and was even able to run it at 433MHz at FSB 133MHz but there I wasn't able to run it with any ISA cards installed and didn't want to go without my soundcard and scanner controller card so I had to stay at 392MHz. You need Ram that supports that speed but until now I never had problems with running PC100 Ram at 112MHz and the original PC100 even ran at 133MHz on the above test. Just don't go up in one step because that may fry the CPU and you surely don't want that. But a possible problem is that Intel often never build in those jumpers so the CPU speed had to be detected automatically by the board. In that case you wouldn't be able to OC at all!

Forgot: If you have that problem with the missing jumpers on your intel board you may try OCing Software like SoftFSB 1.71 which was well known back then. Either your board is already in the board list of you need to check if you have one of the supportet clock chips installed. The hard way would be to compare the given names against the chips installed on the board but I guess Intel will not say you which they installed. There are other programs too. CPUFSB as another example!