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Hi chaps, i have a packard bell pulsar
runnning win 2k on a pentioum 200mhz mmx &
192mb ram (though the motherboard only
registers 128mb at its max load) does any one
have any ideas on how to bump up speed at a
minimum of cost, for example by overclocking
or through specialist software ?
thanks in advance.
If you changed your OS to WIN98SE, things might run a little faster.
You might be able to increase your RAM.
A PCI/IDE adapter card and an ATA133 HDD might add more zip.
Some MOBOs from this era can be overclocked but I don't know if Packard Bell used them.
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You're already running TOO much RAM...I can almost guarantee that your board's chipset only caches 64mb. As Badboy suggested, Win98 might work a little better for you
If you wanna overclock to 233, just change your multiplier setting to 1.5x...the CPU will interpret this setting as 3.5x & it'll clock up to 233 (3.5 x 66mhz)
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Yeah, more info would help (any markings or labels on motherboard).
These old boards often have a slew of jumpers and/or dip switches on them to set voltage, multiplier and fsb speed. Depending on the chipset used, memory in excess of 64Mb can also slow the machine down.
Skip
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let's be real about this, there's no point in getting up to a 33 mhz gain..what's that going to accomplish?
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Probably not much; but, I was happy with the performance increase when I clocked a P60 to 66Mhz. That 6Mhz made a big difference on IE performance and download speeds that was real.
Skip
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Hi Skip, how's it going? Hey, I wanna compliment you again on the great ChillVent review(s) & your page in general..keep up the good work ;)
Tbird4, you can say that about a lot of overclocking projects...what's the point of taking a 2000mhz CPU & running it at 2100mhz? Do you really think you'll see a difference...it's only a 5% increase? Clocking a 200mhz CPU to 233mhz is a 16.5% increase...
ValuPC, you may find some helpful info here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/19970102/index-07.html
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Thanks guys ! After a bit of research (thanks
for the toms hardware link !) and after
looking in the trusty motherboard manual I
shifted a jumper and my CPU is now running
stable at 233mhz. (this is the most my mother
board can take) Thanks a lot !
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I had an old intel based motherboard running two SIMM chips (64 MB each). The system originally had a 233 Mhz Pentium MMX. I later switched it with an AMD K6-2 500 (running at 233 since this was the max the board would support). I took benchmarks before and after the change. I recall the AMD had much better FPU ("Floating Point Unit") ability, which made it more graphically inclined, even while running at the same speed. Also, the AMD ran very cool.
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