SilverPuppy wrote:
More tales from jurassic park! Just for grins I stuck a Pentium-120mhz chip on the board that the Cyrix was on, OCed it to 133mhz (since that was the lowest that board will go) and booted the same hard drive. Two things didn't surprise me. I was not surprised that it booted (and with no complaints) and also was not surprised that it took longer than any previous boot. I WAS surprised that it took 6 minutes 5 seconds to boot! I thought it might have gone faster than that.......but hey, now we know: for the patient, it is possible to run Puppy 4.1.2 non-retro on a P133----if you're VERY patient. (Just loading SeaMonkey took awhile. XD )
Come to think of it, that sounds like a good application for TurboPup, as I have a few of these hanging around still.
BUT, an update! That board now has an AMD K6-III+ 450mhz chip on it. Wow, what an infinitely better chip that is! The best part is that it's supposed to run at 100mhz X 4.5, but I've got it running at 112mhz X 5.5! That's 616mhz out of a chip rated at 450! The funny part is, it's perfectly stable that way. Not a fuss in any way. It runs cool (relatively; I've got a heatsink rated to 1.4ghz on it
) and it makes NO complaint about anything! The Hardinfo benchmarks I am getting are astonishing! I did move everything off the board though: PCI video and audio, as the onboard components are not exceptionally good, and raising the PCI bus speed a few mhz makes some things a bit unhappy. But I've found network, audio, and video cards that are happy at 37.x mhz rather than 33, and boy is that a fun system! More because of what it represents than anything else, as even though I've overclocked it 35%, it's still only a tad over 600mhz, which is definitely not a screamer by modern standards.
Interestingly, in many of the future chips, the manufacturers started multiplier-locking their chips, so the only thing a piddler could do was bus overclocking, or re-engineer the chip. I guess they wanted to avoid accidentally lobbing out a chip that would be able to be turbocharged and beat the pants off their next generation products.