Mike Chambers
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I seem to recall a couple of German kids a few years ago radically underclocking a socket 3 Pentium overdrive chip and a first gen socket 4 Pentium chip and getting XP to boot at something like 16 MHz.
*update* Google reveals the winner of the contest booted XP at 8 MHz
http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm
yep, i've seen that before actually... pretty interesting lol, but not surprised. as long as your chip supports the 5x86 instruction set you should even be able to load it at 1 MHz (if you have lots of time to spare)
i underclocked this cyrix this morning to see how low i could go with vista, and as expected it worked on as slow a clock settings as i could get it... which on this motherboard is 100 MHz. i'd make a video, but i don't think all of youtube's servers combined would have enough space to store it.