I have a old PC, with a Pentium 1 133MHz CPU, and It has just been kind of sitting around. I figure I could OC it. What are the max these hit, and would something like a peltier help?
Extremely pointless..even with a 1000% overclock (to 1.33 ghz) - which would be impossible on this chip - it would still feel very slow to anything that you would be used to. You might be able to get 150mhz maybe a bit more... but the electricty would cost more to run it than its worth (especially if you had a peltier), and the time waiting to load XP (..for example) you could have gotten yourself a job and earned the money to buy a cpu with speeds 10fold of this one ...and ran round the whole of New York city......twice. Sell it on ebay for $1 in my opinion.
Don't even try, they don't OC well at all, eBay it, maybe someone wanting a legacy system will buy it for $5
Or use it as a linux box set up IPCop and use it as a firewall for your network How about network storage for automated backups? My parents have an old 400MHz around that they have for the nostalgia of Win3.1 and DOS games. plenty of uses for old computers besides ebay. I doubt you could get enough money for it to cover shipping anyway.
Don't diss old computers. My main and only laptop (at least that I personally own) is a 450mhz PIII, running windows 2000 perfectly competently. I've actually run ElderScrolls III: Morrowind on it, although it helps that it has an ATi Rage chip. So don't diss the old. If you want a Peltier, I have some of those old peltier coolers for the 286/386/486/Pentium. I'm not sure if they would work, as the pelt is only about a cm squared, but it's worth a shot. I'll sell you one, I have something like 9.
This computer is a lot older than yours (in terms of clock speed.. your computer is more than 3 times as fast as this one). And 2 generations ahead.
yeah well i have an AM486 dx4-100 it has a button that sets jumpers for "turbo" mode which makes it 133, or 144 i think. apparently it needs a heatsink, but i think it has been run withoutone for years lol
Interestingly enough the point of the turbo button is to make the system run at normal speed. Switching turbo off will force the machine to run at 8-16Mhz. I seem to remember this was something to do with older applications relying on clock speed to manage the speed at which events happened.
even windows 95 was clock limited to 350mhz! i have an old pentium 133MHz with a turbo button! yeah tis cool, when i hit it clocks to 150MHz this is where overclocking started. I dont know of any computer on the market at the moment where it has a turbo button to boost clock speed! abit motherboards have something simlar but you have to set the that boost speed urself in the bios. Bring back the 'turbo' buttons!
completly pointless, i'm running a p3 right now witch i oc'd from 1.4ghz to 1.7ghz on 1.7v. and i'm not really noticing a chance
I'm running an old Dual P3-500 for a download box at the mo. Also got 2 PII-400, they run XP VERY well! Its incredable, if all your wanting is a web browser its great for it! I did manage to get XP running on an old P200, worked ok, slow on load up as I installed it on an old laptop HDD. I say OC it and see what you can get out of it! Just for kicks more than anything. Regards GiGo
Agreed, OC it to hell and back! Go crazy, see what happens. Give it one last chance for glory before being binned.
