I installed an Evergreen overdrive on a Gateway 486DX-66 and the Speed Rate
number went from 92 before the upgrade to 96 after (not worth 100.00
bucks!).  Had it set for clock-tripled, the default saving.  Also added
faster hard drive and 16mb of ram (from 8 to 24) so it was hard to
attribute any of the speed increase to the cpu.  I would look at an Amd 586
replacement (133mhz) rather than the overdrive.

Thanks for the idea about L2 cache.  May try to add some to help them out.

nick


At 07:02 PM 3/25/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>>I have a friend who has a Packard Bell 486DX2-66 with 24MB RAM, 540MB hard
>>drive running Windows 95. She would like to upgrade her processor with an
>>overdrive processor. We have seen processors from Evergreen Technology and
>a
>>couple other companies for about $100. Has anyone had any experience with
>any
>>of these upgrade processors that could help us decide which one would give
>us
>>good performance and relatively problem free upgrading. Thank you in
>advance
>>for your advice.
>
>
>I would like to answer a question with a question.... Does the Packard Bell
>have any
>L2 cache installed? The gains from a faster processor will be dampened
>considerably
>by not having any L2 installed.
>     Just my 2 cents
>Bob Robinson
>