First post, by Kahenraz
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- l33t
I've been trying to see how far I can upgrade this poor 440EX motherboard. It has a few overclock pins with up to 83Mhz FSP and a 5x multiplier. But I found that my Pentium 2 SL2WB (Costa Rica) was locked at 4.5x. I could at most achieve a 375Mhz overclock.
I had a few Celerons and some slocket adapters and decided to test if any of the Mendocino cores would work. My 533Mhz SL3PZ would not POST and there was no power-on beep. But my 400Mhz SL3A2 works! And because the multiplier is locked at 6x (higher than I could even select on the motherboard), I have a 500Mhz Celeron where I could only before have at most a 415Mhz Pentium 2.
I've already ordered a 333Mhz Pentium 2 which already supports a 5x multiplier to compare.