Yes, great fun if you are a hobbyist.  I needed some extra speed for my
first project and was able to clock a 16C84 /04 at 16MHz.  Strangely
enough, it took about 5 mins to warm up, before it would run reliably.
I thought it was the other way around (i.e. heat makes it fail).  This was
the only time i ever felt a PIC get warm (apart from plugging them in
backwards!), but it only felt fractionally above room temperature.

Someone said on this list before that they are factory tested to 2xrated.
Like Mark Willis said, it can be done, but since its out of spec nothing
is guaranteed anymore.

My 300A only goes to 375 (with 2.4V, peltier, 80mm fan etc).  Anyone want
to start an overclocking guide for PICs?  How about marketing a range of
vapour-dispostion active cooling attachments with 5V supply and SPI
interface?


On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Aaron Martin wrote:

> Does anyone know if you can "overclock" a PIC?  (I remember in the olden
> days where we would push 386-33's to 384-40s and 486-66s to 486-83s)...and
> Even today, Celeron 300a can be pushed to 450mhz.  Can we do this with the
> PICs?
>         -- Aaron
>