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I was just wondering whether there was anything specific i had to do (jumpers, soldering parts, etc.) to OC a pentium 200. And if any of you can think back to when you too had a similar machine (yes i know it was years ago), what kind of speeds did you manage to get out of it?
I've passed down my old Gateway P200MMX to my grandma who uses it now, but as far as overclocking it, I never tried it. Its most likely by using the jumpers, but I'd have to look at the manual again.
If I remember correctly most people could turn a 200mmx into say 233 or 250/266mhz.
I had a k-6 200 on a super 7 motherboard (now my grandparents have it). Its probably about the same. It ran on a 66mhz bus with a 3x multiplier. I cranked the bus up to 83.3 (often the max on older super 7's), kept the multiplier the same and ran it at 250. It also ran at 66x4=266, but it performs better at 250 because of the higher bus. So thats what I'd recommend.
My motherboard had jumpers - most older socket 7's did, but not all. Check the motherboard manual.
Thats funny you posted this.
I just tonight pulled out a old board with a Pentum MMX 200 in it and 64 megs ram.
I fired it up and OCed it. Mine does it in the bios. But most boards from back then use jumpers. I upped the vcore from 2.8 to 3.0 and this thing booted at 3 x 95. It would boot but then reboot at 3 x 100. I dropped it to 3 x 83 for 250mhz to be safe.
The whole reason I did this was a friend of mine was wanting an old PC for his brother. Just something that could surf the net. He only wanted to pay $50 so I told him I'd throw something together.
You shuold be fine at 3 x 83 and 3.0 vcore.
I still can't believe I saw this topic after just pulling out my old boxes of PC parts :) :) :)