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First post, by dirkmirk

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I suspect not?

Im interested in getting more peformance out of my Pentium 2 overdrive system and Ive never seen any boards that support more than 66mhz, are their any?

Reply 1 of 6, by Old Thrashbarg

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The Abit PS6 would do 75mhz. AFAIK that's the only one.

Reply 2 of 6, by swaaye

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Anandtech pushed one called the Megatrends FX83A which was a modified Supermicro P6SKE. These were Socket 8 + Slot 1, though rev2 only has Slot 1. They could do 75 and 83 MHz. The FX83A and P6SKE have some PCI issues though even at 66 MHz. Video cards tend to display corruption or freeze up in some cases (S3 cards). I've used FX83A-II and P6SKE and both are trouble.

Reply 3 of 6, by Skyscraper

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Intel PR440FX has 60, 63, 66 and 70 mhz fsb options.

I run dual Pentium Pro 256k @ 3*70 mhz without issues.
333 to 350 mhz is not a huge leap but the PR440FX is a nice board that support the overdrives.

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Reply 4 of 6, by anthony

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Powerleap adapter for ppro is able to handle tualatin cpu. Think 100mhz is possible. But it quite expensive

Reply 5 of 6, by bristlehog

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I have an Intel VS440FX motherboard, is it enough to build a PPro rig, or should I search for another mobo? Here it is. Of what I could think, it only supports SIMM memory and its IDE/floppy connector pins are prone to bending.

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Reply 6 of 6, by swaaye

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There's nothing wrong with VS440FX. It was a popular PPro board. You can even overlock a bit with it by running the undocumented 3.5x multiplier.