As long as it's stable and it can pass a stress test like Prime95, it should be fine. I'd watch how hot it runs though, just to make sure.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

As long as it's stable and it can pass a stress test like Prime95, it should be fine. I'd watch how hot it runs though, just to make sure.

i have run prime95 on it and was solid stable, the heatsink is cool to touch. i was just worried incase it may burnout the cpu, thanks for the reasurance. id like to pop in one more question, i have a rage 128 all in wonder 16mb agp card and a generic unbranded TNT2 pro 16mb, which of these cards would be best to run along side a 233mhz to keep in time line of that period? it will be running along side a single atrend voodoo2 12mb pci card (which id run in sli but my other is a different brand).

I'd run it at 300mhz. 440LX is so limited...

If you really wanted to keep with the "period" you would fall back to late97-mid98 hardware, which brings a huge mixed bag of host video cards.... Riva128, Rage Pro Turbo, Mystique etc. and the Voodoo2 😀

leileilol wrote:

I'd run it at 300mhz. 440LX is so limited...

If you really wanted to keep with the "period" you would fall back to late97-mid98 hardware, which brings a huge mixed bag of host video cards.... Riva128, Rage Pro Turbo, Mystique etc. and the Voodoo2 😀

Unfortunatly the board limits me to 66/68/75/85mhz fsb settings and the multiplier is locked on the cpu so im unable to atain 300mhz. i am also running 2x32mb pc66 under win98se. the only other video card i have is a matrox g200 but i will go with the rage 128 aiw. i will be running doom quake 1+2, turok games and other games of that era, not sure if it will do half-life but mostly older games back to dos.

I wonder, is it stable at 290MHz? I think it would be a great way to take advantage of the extra voltage that's being fed to your CPU.

Slot 1 boards are CHEAP. Just get a board with BX440 chipset.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I wonder, is it stable at 290MHz? I think it would be a great way to take advantage of the extra voltage that's being fed to your CPU.

it certaintly is stable at 290mhz 😁 i may have to fit a heatsink to the northbridge though as it gets quite warm with the fsb at 85mhz. i would be better to use pc100 so i dont damage the pc66 ram but i do have a box joblot of sdram in every size and speed 😉

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Slot 1 boards are CHEAP. Just get a board with BX440 chipset.

not so cheap in the uk, all the good boards are overseas with a heft postage tag, though i have found a cheap slot A board for another build for my 667mhz athlon cpu.

Not in the UK? Man your eBay market is one of the best. Just got to look and be patient. The other option is getting a complete PIII PC. They are also very cheap, often can be picked up locally for free.

http://dsa.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p204 … 58058&_from=R40

One of my favourites:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aopen-AX6BC-Slot-1- … =item232f3caab9

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Not in the UK? Man your eBay market is one of the best. Just got to look and be patient. The other option is getting a complete […]
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Not in the UK? Man your eBay market is one of the best. Just got to look and be patient. The other option is getting a complete PIII PC. They are also very cheap, often can be picked up locally for free.

http://dsa.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p204 … 58058&_from=R40

One of my favourites:

http://dsa.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p204 … 58058&_from=R40

most of the boards are from oem built pc's, i like retail but i will be sure to keep an eye out for a decent one in uk. As for pentium 3's all my p3 boards have died over the years to the cold winter climates, i had some really great p3 boards (2 chaintech boards 440bx that could run a 550@800mhz stable) which is a shame 😢 . im left with a collection of cpu's now, 550, 667 slot 1 cpu's and 667/700/800/866/933mhz skt 370's all working of course 😁

pkw4 wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I wonder, is it stable at 290MHz? I think it would be a great way to take advantage of the extra voltage that's being fed to your CPU.

it certaintly is stable at 290mhz 😁 i may have to fit a heatsink to the northbridge though as it gets quite warm with the fsb at 85mhz. i would be better to use pc100 so i dont damage the pc66 ram but i do have a box joblot of sdram in every size and speed 😉

You'll definitely want to do that. I know that when I overclocked my main box, I had to put a fan in front of the northbridge heatsink to keep it stable. I'm actually considering modding an old CPU cooler from an Athlon 64 box and putting that in place. It would be overkill, but it would be worth it.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

pkw4 wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I wonder, is it stable at 290MHz? I think it would be a great way to take advantage of the extra voltage that's being fed to your CPU.

it certaintly is stable at 290mhz 😁 i may have to fit a heatsink to the northbridge though as it gets quite warm with the fsb at 85mhz. i would be better to use pc100 so i dont damage the pc66 ram but i do have a box joblot of sdram in every size and speed 😉

You'll definitely want to do that. I know that when I overclocked my main box, I had to put a fan in front of the northbridge heatsink to keep it stable. I'm actually considering modding an old CPU cooler from an Athlon 64 box and putting that in place. It would be overkill, but it would be worth it.

you can get a zalman chipset cooler off ebay quite cheap, i have one on order 😎
my main box im on i have been meaning to put a fan on to as it gets far to hot to touch until my zalman chipset cooler arrives, exact same gigabyte g31-sl2 board as in your sig with 4gb corsair xms2 and e8400@3ghz stock but easily does 3.6ghz with no voltage modifications and an akasa x4 cooler on it.

Right now I'm actually running an ASUS P5B. It's an older board, but it actually has better features than what I was using before.

EDIT: Just updated my sig. I decided to try a different banner style. 😁

Be careful, I had a Chaintech 440LX board and when I overclocked to 83MHz FSB I started getting hard disk corruption, presumably because the PCI bus was running too fast and the IDE controller didn't like this.

I've had BIOS+HDD corruption with BX@133 MHz 😀

I will take the hdd corruption issue into acount, but i will most likely keep the cpu at 233mhz if i have any issue at 290mhz which does give it quite a boost in games. Iv not heared of a 440bx having hdd issues at its standard 100mhz, most are good for 142mhz fsb if you use pc133. I know where to come back if i have any more issues on my retro builds in future, thanks again for the help guys 😁

@mr_bigmouth_502 : nice new sig, my ram is 800mhz@5-5-5-18, i also would have liked a p35 but is costly for a decent 775 board these days, though i do have an asus m4a78lt-m for a phenom II x4 build to eventually replace my main box.

It was just a slip of the pen, of course I meant 133 MHz 😉

If linking to ebay is allowed, how about AmiBay?
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=50389

I got my gigabyte bx-2000 board at the local flea market,for 2 euros,turned out to be fine,the asus on the other hand,same market,same price,turned out to be a dud.