Pentium MMX 233 Review

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[ScibyTravels]

I've still got my P233MMX that I bought with the first paycheck from my first fulltime job. Still works like a charm.

[MultiDivebomber]

When I had 133MHz Pentium, 233MHz MMX was really high end.

[TheRetarp]

Awesome Phil! My first computer was this Pentium 233MHz MMX. It's a custom build I bought it off a friend. 96MB EDO RAM, SB LIVE, and a voodoo 3 2000! It took a while to load games, but then it could actually play newer titles like UT99 and Half Life in Glide mode pretty good (all things considered) once the level loaded. Played many hours of HL multiplayer using the surround sound of the SB Live to my advantage. I just resurrected it a couple of months ago to play DOS games. Now it has a Soundblaster 32 and an ATI Rage XL 8MB. Works great to play old games!

[BoldlyDoug]

This was my first CPU. First ever build when I was 16. I was the envy of all my friends who had 486 systems.

[dfxvoodoocards]

With a Voodoo 2 or Banshee the Pentium MMX is perfectly capable of running at decent framerates games like Quake 2, Unreal, Half Life.

[DaemonlordX]

233mmx was the last hand me down pc my stepdad gave me and the first I bought with my own money when I was 18 and finishing high school in 2002. It had a 4mb Alliance 3d connected to a 12mb voodoo 2 cards allowing me to play games like Metal Gear Solid, Sin, unreal etc after upgrading from a cyrix 120+. I upgraded to a Pentium 3 Celeron 667mhz and eventually to an Athlon XP 2600 after I started working full time and wanting to play newer games with a few short years.

[Edman_]

This is cool. I've got mine for about 10 USD just a few months ago and wished for it to be in the last "poll build". Never mind, i's still all good! I just adore all your videos :)

[atheatos]

I had the Pentium MMX 166. Great processor, easily overclocks to 3x100= 300Mhz (+80%) on Super socket 7

[DexSS]

233MMX, Riva STB Velocity 128 4MB 3D Accelerator, 32MB SDRAM, 4GB HDD... My first rig.... how I miss the days. No words could ever express.

[hartsickdisciple]

I don't know why you would play Tomb Raider on a Pentium 200 or 233 MMX without a 3d accelerator card. Put a 3dfx card in there and watch it fly.

[wildbilltexas]

I bought a used MMX 233 at a local computer dealer for 10 bucks about a decade ago. I didn't know the internet price for them had remained high until now. It was a great chip (and easy to overclock too) but outrageously expensive brand new compared to the Cyrix and K6.

[evilqtip]

Thank you for bringing me back a great memory..

[rstebnicki]

got 200mmx with voodoo2 12mb - lovely setup.

[erwing.]

I still have this Chip in a Notebook from 1997 - the "Toshiba TECRA 750CDT". This machine is easily WinXP capable. I still love it.

[andipajeroking]

So happy that i bought this CPU, and at a steal. Whole PC was like 25$ :D

[AdrianMNegreanu]

the 233 MHz Pentium was the fastest P55C Socket7.
Tillamook, the pentium built on 0.25 microns, would go up to 300 MHz and can also run on Socket7.

[GraveUypo]

awwww i was really looking forward to overclocking figures. you have my exact old mobo and my exact old cpu and i wish you'd show me what could have been if i knew about overclocking back then.

[mattafaak]

Phil delivers once again! Thanks, pal.

[cookieboy]

just got this beast working.... HP Pavilion 8240. Sold New between 1995 and 1998 with Windows 95, I've installed Windows 98 SE. Has a Pentium 233MHz MMX Processor, 32MB Ram, 8.4GB Hard Drive, ATI 264VT2 Video Chipset and Sound Blaster AudioPCI Sound.

[AceGA]

I have one of these in my old school machine. I ran a recycling and refurbishing shop years ago, and got a batch of compaq or hp machines in (I can't recall). When I was tearing them down I noticed these CPU's, which I had never seen up to that point. I saved a couple, and eventually built one into a machine that I still have. I'm guessing these are fairly hard to find now.