O.C. a P-II 300.

[lhgpoobaa]

i have a crappy old P-II 300Mhz on a lousy
GA-686BLX motherboard.
the LX being the older 66Mhz system bus.
Is there anyway i can overclock it at all?
(dont mind if it lasts for a day and melts to slag at this point)

regards

ThePoo!

 

[TheSandman]

You may be able to change the multiplyer of your cpu check that out if not you will be stuck will fsb change there may be jumpers on your board to select a higher fsb max will probably be 83mhz.

SANDMAN

 

[flavio321]

sandman i'm always a step late then you... anywho, the older pentiums like the p2 300 should not be multiplier-locked so check the mobo manual for the jumper settings to change the multiplier.

If you can't beat 'em kill 'em
athlon "SLOTA" thunderbird 700@1050mhz

 

[lhgpoobaa]

well its a LX mb so the FSB choices i have are 66mhz, 66 or 66 lol
do u think softfsb will work at all on such a 'locked' fsb?
there are dipswitches for the multiplier, and i can run my processor at 300 mhz and downwards.
however when i set it to run faster than 300 mhz (4.5) something really STRANGE happens.
it somehow does run at the correct multiplier, but the FSB jumps down to wierd Mhz frequencies, typically 33Mhz, 25Mhz 11Mhz... so in reality my system runs at around 125Mhz.
so something in there somehow detecting the over multiplied process and is compensating by throttling the FSB.
never seen that before.
any ideas?
(will try softfsb soon)

regards

ThePoo!

 

[TheSandman]

That is prety wierd, try soft fsb see if you can fix that in windows after you set the mult.

SANDMAN