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overclocking an old cirix processor or overclock an 866Mhz P3 or a 700


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can i overclock a cirix -300 processor from 233mhz to 266mhz or wont this make any diference in performance for linux (mandrake 10.2)

Edited by awergh

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Cyrix processors are not recommended for overclocking. Furthermore, a gain of 33 Mhz does not show any improvements.

Edited by bluhound
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ok maybe i shouldnt, and its only a normalish fan and heatsink, what was the thing about green heatsinks?

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not to mention Mandrake can easily run on a 233...that is unless you decide to run everything all at once in the same window... linux doesn't need a fast computer to run well...thats usually a windows OS thing...

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not to mention Mandrake can easily run on a 233...that is unless you decide to run everything all at once in the same window... linux doesn't need a fast computer to run well...thats usually a windows OS thing...

Linux can run on a toaster and still work fine.

That was a joke.... But seriously, I've got two linux boxes at home, both running Debian; one is a 300MHz P2 and the other is a 500MHz AMD-K6. Both have around 128MB to 192MB of RAM and work great... No overclocking needed! :)

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Linux can run on a toaster and still work fine.

How did you manage to link the cd-rom to it so you can install linux? :lol: Was it bluetooth? ROFLMAOPMP

PS. Just joking, no offence meant...

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wow what a toaster

my main problem with the cirix 233Mhz is that it takes 5-10 minutes to boot up

but i have a new question now.

can i overclock an 866Mhz P3 or a 700Mhz Celeron

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you can overclock almost anything in a computer with a clock rate. its just is it safe to do so.

whats this P3 running? if its booting linux, 700 or 866 doesn't make a difference. you said you were using mandrake, why not try ubuntu? just a different grub environment. still good ol' linux. ubuntu can boot in about 2 minutes or less on a 1.1GHz processor [from experience] and about 1 minute on a 1.4GHz processor. is it a server or a just a normal linux installation?

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