Pentium II 233MHZ. MMX Overclock Possible?

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I want to overclock my Pentium II 233MHZ, just for fun, is this even possible?
 
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Sorry, the Pentium I have is a Pentium II not Pentium MMX, I think I can overclock in BIOS.
 
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MMX does not determine if a chip is overclockable. I think every chip after 486 has MMX on it. Not sure why you are hung up on this.

Your chip doe shave MMX look...
http://www.intel.com/design/PentiumII/documentation.htm

What is MMX look...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)

That said all chips are overclockable just some feature multiplier overclocking and others don't. You can overclock every chip by raising the FSB (Front Side Bus) or now called BCLK (Base Clock). The problem with this method of overclocking is it changes the buss speed for your entire motherboard causing you to over clock you Memory, QPI and Bridges which can cause them to be unstable and needing more voltages which means more heat on your North Bridge and more heat on your RAM which means you will have to get 3rd party coolers for them as well as your CPU. This is why people say these chips are not overclockable because you really need to know what you are doing to over clock them and even then you can only get mild overclocks out of them.

If you are still interested In over clocking your computer you will need to find out how to change the FSB on your motherboard. Some of those older ones had jumpers on the board some used BIOS settings. Consult your user manual that cam with the motherboard. You will need to jumper to the next tier of the FSB the boot into windows and check you your temps. They should be some where south of 80c depending on your ambient temps. If the system does not boot or crashes at any point you will need to raise the CPU voltage which is different depending on mother board. Consult your manual. Then you boot again and try some sort of stress tester like PRime95 to make sure your computer does not crash under load and check your temps are ok under a stress test. Then you rinse and repeat until you can't go any further or your temps get so high that you risk burning out your computer. I recommend you use Speed Fan to monitor your temps because it will show you your NB temps along with the CPU Core temps.

Good luck.
 
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