Is it safe to overclock a Pentium Classic 133 to 166?

[aulendil]

I need some advice on overclocking a Pentium Classic 133 to 166. I have this old Gateway laying around, and I want to use it as a MAME box. Some of the arcade games run a little slow at 133MHz, and the most that I can multiply the clock up to is 166MHz. I don't want to put any money into it, as it is a thousand years old and not worth it. How well does the Pentium Classic respond to being overclocked? I don't care if it will shorten the life by some small amount, as long as it doesn't smoke it right away.

Thanks.

aulendil

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

Just as safe as it is to overclock any other CPU.

as long as its running at a fairly low temperature, and in the same voltage range it should be fine. Remember though, that with overclocking of any kind, there is a risk that you will damage your CPU - and if you're overclocking via FSB the rest of your components as well.

 

[Whitedog]

With modern Heat sinks and fans, you can easily. I ran a p133 @ 200mhz with no problems... I just put a big a$$ HS/fan from a k6 and it worked fine. As far as I know, the guy that has it hasn't had any problems.

 

[Syborg1211]

It pretty much is definitely worth the overclock even if you could only get 50 mhz. Because unlike with today's proccesors, 50 mhz is one LOT of a overclock. It is almost like 150%.