Old sys ocing?

[JoJo boy]

My friend just got an old 486 dx2 intel running at 66mhz. He was wondering if there was any way to overclock this system. Thankx

[The WhiteRabbit]

Wow, that's an old system, alright.

There *may* be a way to overclock it, but then the only way to do so may involve swapping out a timing crystal, which simply isn't worth the effort for the reward involved.

If you're very, very lucky there may be multipliers listed on the motherboard, but since it is a 66MHz DX2, it may already be at the fastest available speed. It <i>is</i> possible that the motherboard may support a DX4 processor, and so have a setting for 100MHz, but it's not likely that it will, and even if it does you then have to hope that the processor can handle that OC.

Good luck.