K62 500mhz too slow for even basic computing?

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Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Btw, if you build a heatsink out of tin, in the shape of a bowl, and set the voltage to ~3.0v, and clock it up to 500-550Mhz, you can cook eggs on that proc. No joke! 🙂

I recall seeing that posted on a web site. IIRC they used sheet aluminum and a Tbird Athlon.

Just throw a bunch of memory in it and it will run W2K or even XP just fine.

I just got a SP2 disc free from Microsoft and it said requirements for XP with SP2 was something like 64MB RAM and 200 or 233MHz.

Sure, it will run but VERY slowly. I installed Win2K on a Celeron 300 with 64MB. Not fun at all to use so I threw in another 128MB and now it runs like a Caddy.