Tetrium wrote on 2022-07-17, 12:41:
Installing a P1 MMX 233 @166MHz requires the exact same effort as installing a P1 MMX 166 @ 166MHz 😜
I don't think you understood what I meant.
Let's say you're running an MMX 233 at full speed for playing Quake 2. After finishing that game, you want to downclock it to 166 MHz in order to play something speed sensitive like Descent. To do that, you need to physically move the jumper to a different position, unless you have a (very rare) jumperless socket 7 motherboard.
Of course, this might possible on some super socket 7 boards, but people who have those generally use a K6-2+ or a K6-3+ since those CPUs offer a wider slowdown range.