OC a Pentium 200

[Agathron]

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?

[boob]

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.

[russ_watters]

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.

[vertices]

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