Overclocking my 'friends' computer

[RAiL]

my "friend" has a 300mhz P2 with 128 megs of ram, he wants to overclock it but is curious how safe it is due to the age of the computer and that nothing is known about the motherboard except it can overclock to 366, i know this is just overclocking the FSB and i want to know if this can damage his processor. also any tips on cooling would be helpful

 

[paulip88]

If your friend has later model PII 300, he may be in luck for some VERY easy OCing. The later PII 300 models come with the newer Deschutes corewhich is the same core that is used for the PII 450s. Because of this, many of the later models can handle 450 (with an FSB of 100) using stock cooling.

But the question is, does he have one of these later chips? One good way to find out is looking at the cartridge and then looking up its info on www.overclockers.com (the CPU database) to see how people with the same processors were able to do.

Oh yeah. You'll also need a mobo that can support a 100MHz FSB like a 440BX.

 

[han888]

what mobo your friend use?

 

[RAiL]

thats the problem, we dont know its a generic gateway brand that came with his computer, and for previous post YES it is a late model P2 got it as soon as the 300's were released way back 3 years ago

 

[RAiL]

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[RAiL]

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