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Welcome
Name: Justin Weber Date: December 27, 2001 at 06:42:41 Pacific
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Welcome to the CPUs/Overclocking forum. This forum is designed for discussions of the latest hardware issues dealing with both CPUs and the Overclocking of them. I hope you enjoy the new forum. Justin Weber
Name: Mark p Date: December 27, 2001 at 11:20:21 Pacific
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Excelent Justin. Just the place to discuss speeding up my 486s-oops not quite the latest kit-lol. Hope you had a good Christmas.
Mark
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Response Number 2
Name: jGURU Date: December 28, 2001 at 01:59:41 Pacific
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About time Justin, some of us speed freaks always wondered why there wasn't an oc-ing forum - good stuff.
LET THE OVERCLOCKING BEGIN!!
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Response Number 3
Name: STAR Date: January 10, 2002 at 01:36:37 Pacific
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Thanks for the new forum.
STAR
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Response Number 4
Name: StAkEr Date: January 11, 2002 at 19:29:13 Pacific
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Hi, I have a pentium processor with MMX technology. Its a 233 Intel Chip. I have an old Compaq Presario 4526. Which i bought in 1997. You can look up my model on Compaqs website = www.compaq.com
My main concern is speed for my pc.
I have a 233 Intel MMX Chip * 32 RAM * 3.73 Gigabyte hard drive * 24 x MAX CD ROM DRIVE *
I am wanting to know if it is possible Overclocking my CPU ????
AND
IF Yes How would i go about it ????
Please Reply
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Response Number 5
Name: Lee Date: January 14, 2002 at 21:08:41 Pacific
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get a chart of your mobo jummpers from compaq of the motherboard you got and set the cpu speed to be faster.
But be careful! overclock it slowly like for a example the CPU runs at 233MHz set the jummpers for it to be 266MHz and see if the pc works find if it does keep going. Oh and if i were you get a better heat sink and fan
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