Under-clocking XP

[Neon_WA]

i came across these guys on the web trying to see how slow a puter they could run XP on. It gave me a laugh

http://www.brucebeh.com/dugg/xpmini_eng.htm

Now i wonder if anyone on here has done better

cheers
Stu

[Neon]

Interesting. Those guys really put in some good effort.

My earliest working board is a Super 7 board, which only goes down to 60 MHz bus. The lowst using this is Pentium 100 and K5-PR100.

K5-PR90 was also tried, but it refused to boot Windows XP.

[Marcin]

I love articles like that ! Great work.

[thomsonicus]

Nice one. I found it some time ago, while searching for the minimal specs to run Win98. If I remember correctly these guys also tried Win98 on a 386 system

[Marcin]

I remember when I installed win98 on 486 DX4 100. It worked terrible slow

[viili]

I've run win98 with 15MHz underclocked AMD K5.. didn't install it that slow though Had to bypass the on board clock chip to underclock that much I still have the system, it's quite cool to be able to change the bus speed in 0.1MHz steps on such old hardware

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=116033

[thomsonicus]

I remember running Win98 (not SE) on a i486DX33 with 4MB ram in safe mode. guess 4 megs were not enough to run normal win98.

[D.8080]

That's some real nice jerking around hardware...

This is having fun!

[viili]

Bit of an "update"..

8.18MHz w/ K5-PR133

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=523297

[frag_]

Here is a experiments with the minimal requirements for different OSes
http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/winq.htm
Very interesting reading!