Overclocking the Pentium 166 MMX(ah way back when)

[Tech53]

So I'll be building this new Barton 2500 machine to OC. But I have a problem; what to do with my pentium 166 MMX and 3 pentium 133's hmmmmm.....isn't pentium 133 supposed to be really hard to OC?.....wonder how much my 166 can take before it frys.....

Basically I've got 3 CPU's to fry and need help doing so. The 166 Overclocks to 233 but benchmarks between 140 and 155 maybe you could help get it up to 233? Past that somehow?(233 is as fast as any jumper combo will let it go as far as I know.)
Give me some ideas (please don't say Linux, I'm already saving a 133 for that)

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[tombance]

Use one as a Router/Firewall?

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[basmic]

I have a personal request for one of them.

1) Get camera video-recorder handy
2) OC CPU as much as possible, then run something to really heat the bitch up
3) Remove heatsink, and take pics/video.

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[speeduk]

I got a 233 to 333mhz once. Was unstable though. Hella hot too

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[tombance]

How about you take a car battery and jam some wires on random pins and connect the wires to the battery. Then you would of course need to videotape the outcome for our pleasure

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[pIII_Man]

hmmm...your kinda given me ideas...wonder what my pentium 100mhz would hit...hell i never even overclocked my 386dx-40...hmmm....my 286 clocked well 12mhz i beleive.

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[svol]

My old Pentium 75 is now running at 120 MHz (it is both multiplier as FSB OC'ed) as a gateway server.

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[Tech53]

Some of your ideas are slightly insane but nonetheless good.
I still wanna know why when it is overclocked to 233 it benchmarks in the 140-150 range

I've also got a Cyrix 6x86 pr 166 (actual mhz 133) but I bent the pins by accident........Hey I wonder if I could use a whole bunch of old CPUs to build a computer case you know a case made of old CPUs! Do you think it would dissapate heat very well? Or I could just fry them.....and THEN use them as a case!!!

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[svol]

Could be caused by lower memory speeds or an actual lower CPU speed (I heard stories where overclocking resulted in underclocking).

Anyway case are not meant to dissapate heat, that si what the case manufactuers want us to beleive so we buy expensive aluminium cases. The airflow inside the case it the actual heat mover.

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM