Pentium Overclocking:

Intel's good old pentiums, are very reliable. They range from 50Mhz - 233Mhz. Yes believe it or not there was a pentium 50 and 60, but I won't take much about those because they were 5 volt chips and aren't really around. Motherboards today don't even support them. OK let's get into Overclocking!

A Little Background:

The pentiums came out in 1993 with a whopping 3.1 million transistors. This was far more then the 486s which had a little over 1 million. They have 16K cache which was twice that of the 486, and came in much greater speeds. Pentiums al;so had standard co-processors(used for math calculation) which only some of the 486s had(mostly the DX, DX2, and DX4.) Also pentiums required a new socket, socket 5 or extremely similar to today's socket 7. The 486s used a socket 3.

Overclocking Time!

Ok first of all, don't be affriad your gonna blow up your computer or fry your chip. Basicaly the worst thing that can happen is your system won't boot, or locks-up right away when turned on, and to fix this all you do is set it back to it's original settings. Ok when you start overclocking, find a speed that u feel comfortable with, i.e. If I had a Pentium 100 I'd feel comfortable with it at 120, even though I could probably push it to 133, you should start with the next step up. To set your cpu you need to do two things, set the BUS, and set the multiplier. The BUS in basic terms is how fast the computer communicates with to the other compnents in your computer. The most common bus is 66Mhz but today we have reached 100, 133 and the K7 runs on a 200Mhz BUS. Well on your board you probably have a bus speed of either 60 or 66, you might have it at 50 though. Simply put you make this faster or sometimes slower to increase your cpu speed. Below is a chart that tells you what your BUS should be and what your multiplier should be if you want to hit a certain Mhz.