Here's an interesting idea...

[Crazy Jayhawk]

Pentiums are multiplier locked. That's a given. The idea for the adapter design below is simple: If you can't manipulate the multiplier on the chip, manipulate the clock signal going to the chip.

I'm assuming for the sake of clarity that for a socket 370 chip there is one clock signal pin and 369 other pins.

Those 369 other signals travel through the motherboard socket and adapter into the CPU plugged into the adapter.

It's when you look at the clock signal that things get interesting. The clock has a multiplier attached to it.

Default setting for this multiplier is 1.0. The proper increments for this multiplier might be harder to determine, but for this example I'll assume it to be .25.

Our imaginary CPU/Adapter combo is a 1.0 Ghz chip. 7.5x133.

Turn the secondary multiplier up to 1.25 and the new speed is 1.25x7.5x133=1.25 Ghz.

Hey, it's an idea. :beer:

[RainMaQer]

So it would be an adapter specifically for OCing? Good luck with marketing :) (kidding)

[Pinky]

We had another of these threads 6 months ago, became a heated debate about who said who said what about some one they knew... Nowadays the multiplier isn't the limiting factor, the total chip speed and/or memory / pci speeds are.

[Crazy Jayhawk]

Originally posted by Pinky
We had another of these threads 6 months ago, became a heated debate about who said who said what about some one they knew... Nowadays the multiplier isn't the limiting factor, the total chip speed and/or memory / pci speeds are. True.

The whole idea with this thing is to increase the chip's speed without changing the PCI or memory speeds at all.