Re: overdrive

James Torrent (jftorren@nospam.socs.uts.EDU.AU)
Mon, 10 Oct 1994 19:57:24 +1000

I was under the impression that the overdrive chip doubled the existing
motherboard clock. ie: if you had a dx33, you could install an overdrive
chip that accepted the "33Mhz" signal and doubled it for its own use.

On a "proper" dx266 motherboard, the cpu is supplied directly with a
66MHZ signal. (yes I know they called it clock doubling technology,and of
course there is a 33Mhz signal for the "stuff" thats not the cpu).

There is an extra pin in the cpu socket for the faster clock, its on the
inside of the square donut :) , If you don't have one of these, you need an
overdrive, if you do, you can stick an actual dx266 in.

2 very important points :
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1) why bother, wait till you can afford a real computer.

2) I'm not comletely sure about anything I may have just said because
I'm too tired to get completely technical, and I'm crapping on from a
vague memory of an article I read a year ago :)

enjoy.......