pentium 2 overclocking

[HondaF1]

hi,
i made a junk box pc out of some spare parts. It sa Pentium 2, normal processor speed = 266 Mhz . Its got an AGP slot. 160 MB 100 MHz RAM. 4 Gb Harddrive. The MB has multiplier freqency and all taht to fiddle with. I want to increase the processor speed, (assuming the board allows me to go past a limit. But in general, which is better? To overclock by having a highest multplier number possible with lower bus frequency or high of both and increase voltage if possible of low multiplier and high bus freq.? I think I heard somewhere that it is not performance much to increase the multipliers by a lot and give it more concern than the freq., is this true?

Also, any otehr software tools or anything else that can be used to overclock a P2?

 

[Assimilator1]

But in general, which is better? To overclock by having a highest multplier number possible with lower bus frequency

No,where possible you want the lowest multiplier with the highest FSB ,though you need to be careful the PCI/AGP bus doesn't go too out of spec.Usually you are ok with 75 & 112MHz FSB (giving about 37MHz PCI) but go much above that & you could get HDD data corruption &/or PCI cards becoming unstable.Only way to know is to try it! ,so if you do backup data 1st.

Also you will not be able to increase the multiplier on any PIIs (except engineering samples) ,some PIIs will allow you to chose a lower multiplier though.The klamath cores will but the Descheutes cores wont AFAIK.
If its a Klamath PII don't excpect to o/c it by much ,maybe 280-290 area or so.
If its a Descheutes core you might be able to get 448MHz if it has the fast L2 cache fitted


I think I heard somewhere that it is not performance much to increase the multipliers by a lot and give it more concern than the freq., is this true?

Huh?,sorry but that doesn't make sense

Let us know how you get on