sciboi66

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Anybody out there know if I can put PII Overdrive 333's in this Compaq Proliant Server that I have? It has dual Pentium Pro's @ 200 MHz. I have done a little research and so far I get a negative answer. I was wondering what board they would have come in, is it a server board or other? A friend gave me this server with 3 SCSI drives and I wanted to play around with it to see if I could OC it a little if possible. Any ideas?
 

Crashman

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I'm fairly certain the 333MHz overdrive worked fine in dual configuration. As for your Proliant 800, I'm not certain, Compaq does things differently you know!

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Crashman

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Wusy, the CPU he's refering to is a Pentium II overdrive for Socket 8 (Pentium Pro socket). It has 512k of FULL SPEED off-die cache. Because of the fast cache, it was the PREFERED CPU for high performance overclocking back in the day. You could get a Slot 1 to Socket 8 adapter card and mount TWO of them in a BX dually board, then try your best to get 100MHz bus (500MHz CPU x2 CPU's with 512k of <b>FULL SPEED</b> cache)!

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Well, thanks for the constuctive criticism my friend! I guess my reply would be why overclock anything? I guess because I can or want to.
 

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I know. I really hate Compaq for that. I guess I'm just so assinely stubborn that I will find a way to "hack" this thing, if it's possible. Thank's for the reply.
 

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I can respect that. Hey, I made another post in the software section. I am wondering about where I might find a database program that is fairly user friendly with a GUI interface. I've started my own PC repair business and a potential customer needs a database that he can use to keep copies of medical records. Have you heard of a program or a programmer that can do this?