Computer Learning

[lostcowboy]

I should of said that the System clock speed on most all of the older boards were changed by using shorting pins on the mother board. I have a super 7 motherboard, a Taiwan generic one. I have pins for the cpu voltage,Dimm voltage,etc.As far as
Clock speed goes I can set it 60 to 100 mhz. This is what they call the front end speed now a day. You then have your cpu multiplier settings, these can go between 5.5x and 1.5x. What you do is take your cpu's speed and divide it by the multiplier setting this will give you the system speed setting.
Here is a example My cpu is a amd k6/2 300MHZ if I divide 300 by 5.5 I get a system clock speed of 54.54MHZ, Which is to slow a clock. 300 divided by 3 gives me a clock speed of 100MHZ. Which is what I used, but it meant that I had to buy PC100 DIMM chips (or 10 nano sec.). At the time they were expensive so like you I started with 30megs of memory.
Note some of the old systems were unstable at 100Mhz, you see when they first started making boards with PCI buss they took the system clock speed at the time (66Mhz) and divided it by two so the PCI buss is 33MHZ, so all the video cards are set up for 33MHZ. On the old MB when you changed the system speed the PCI speed changed and sometimes the video card became unstable. On my MB card the PCI buss stays at 33 Mhz no mater what the system clock speed.
Here is a web site that can explain this better than me.
http://www.tomshardware.com