Originally posted by: Fresh Daemon
It's a PII-266. These ones almost always have an unlocked multiplier, so go nuts - no need to overclock the FSB, which in those days also meant overclocking the PCI/AGP bus and the RAM.
440LX chipsets aren't that great. They were a stopgap between the 440FX (a Pentium Pro chipset that was shanghai'ed into PII service just so they had a working chipset when the PII was released) and the 440BX, which was the first good PII chipset, in fact quite possibly the best PII chipset. I don't believe your mobo will run at 100MHz FSB.
In mid-summer, I gave my nephew an old PII/400 I'd had around here a long time. It was still running when I'd set it aside, and I'd gradually robbed it of most of its hardware, other than MB, box, and CPU. I told him at the time that the 440BX was well-liked by some folks in the way back (but it was never compatible with games I was interested in, which ended up being played on my slower and older P-I/233).
It was eventually just used as a file backup and printer server machine on my LAN, until something still newer was eventually demoted into that task.
I suspect that the nephew might get a minor kick if it was fairly easy to overclock it. I was out of the system-building enthusiast ranks when I bought that one from a White Box shop locally; your message makes you sound like someone who was actively tinkering with the PC's at the time. Where can I refer the kid for pertinent data regarding tweaking the old stuff?
Thanks.
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