Talk:Pentium OverDrive
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It should be "OverDrive", not "Overdrive": should this article be moved to Intel Pentium OverDrive or Pentium OverDrive? For the Intel 80486 article has got "Intel" in it, whereas the Pentium article does not. Crusadeonilliteracy 20:39, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
[edit] OverDrive to upgrade Pentium "P5"
There was one, powered at 5V and fitting instead of Pentium 60/66, called "Pentium OverDrive 120/133". Why isn't it covered?
Yes, the Pentium OverDrive I believe upgrades Pentiums, I have one in my old P90, while an Overdrive is for the 486. --4.40.1.160 05:35, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] pentium 2 overdrive
I'm pretty sure there was a pentium 2 overdrive that replaced a pentium pro and supported up to dual CPU operation IIRC it had half the L2 cache of the pentium 2 but ran it at full speed like the pentium pro did and in some benchmarks actually came out faster than the pentium 2. I can't find any mention of it here in wikipedia though. Plugwash 23:53, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Correct, Intel did produce a Pentium II overdrive CPU for Pentium Pro based systems. Essentially, it's a Pentium II Xeon running at 333mhz with 512kb of full speed L2 cache. It was certified only for single and dual processor configurations. I personally have 2 of these CPU's in a Compaq Deskpro 5200 with 256mb of 168 pin EDO RAM and a 4.3gb Wide SCSI hard drive. All this particular machine does it sit idle at the Windows XP desktop running XP's ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) software. Infinitrium 04:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
