I popped over my parents place yesterday to see if I could find one of the earlier systems we had (well, it was originally my sisters first pc), it was a desktop DX2-66 that I upgraded to a POD to use as a web proxy/spam filter when we had dial up.... I was hoping to get another system midway between my in-progress 286-16 and the Pentium Pro, however, sadly I think it must have been junked a few years ago... damn!

Please enlighten me, what's a POD? A quick google search mostly listed iPods;)

Pentium Overdrive, google will enlighten you futher.

Ok, thanks. Seems that POD is no longer that much known on the net 😉

sliderider wrote:

After months of not finding one for a reasonable price I finally broke down and bought one new in box for $42 shipped. That was the lowest I had seen a NIB POD for a long time. I figured it would be safer going with one that hadn't been used because nobody had the chance to overclock it and blow it up yet. I hope it works.

I got a NIB POD83 about 2 months ago. My first POD, in fact. I tried OC'ing it, but alas it fails the Quake timedemo test @ 100 MHz. I guess its production date is not a "magic" one. I'm looking forward to reading about your experiments with the Biostar 486 mobo. When are you going to start messing about with it? 😀

Solved! I got this working. I set the mobo's CPU voltage to 5v. The POD83 now overclocks to 100MHz, in write-back mode. It passes the Quake timedemo test. The BIOS timings are more or less "maxed out", including fastest cache timings. The DRAM read state is = "1", not "0", but apart from that, all settings are set to their fastest values.

retro games 100 wrote:

sliderider wrote:

After months of not finding one for a reasonable price I finally broke down and bought one new in box for $42 shipped. That was the lowest I had seen a NIB POD for a long time. I figured it would be safer going with one that hadn't been used because nobody had the chance to overclock it and blow it up yet. I hope it works.

I got a NIB POD83 about 2 months ago. My first POD, in fact. I tried OC'ing it, but alas it fails the Quake timedemo test @ 100 MHz. I guess its production date is not a "magic" one. I'm looking forward to reading about your experiments with the Biostar 486 mobo. When are you going to start messing about with it? 😀

Maybe soon. I have a CF adapter and card and a copy of Windows 95 that I am going to put in the M919 system first since that one is already installed in a case. Once I do some messing around with that, then maybe I'll do a motherboard swap.

@sliderider

M919 does not specifically support the POD (P24T). You can run it on the Cyrix 5x86, AMD X5 setting, but it will be in WT mode -- still quite fast.