Talk:Pentium OverDrive
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)
[edit] 586 chips?
Is the pentium overdrive the Intel equivilant of those "586 Upgrade Chips" that appeared... notably from other chip brands such as Cyrix and Everygreen? If so, should it be mentioned somewhere in the article? If not... is there another article that exists somewhere? --WildKard (talk) 19:06, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
