I have an old Packard Bell PB770 Board that has a Phoenix BIOS v6.0H dated Jul-1997. It came with an original 133Mhz Pentium and according to Packard bell at that time could support up to a 200Mhz Pentium. I have seen at least one person claim to have upgraded to an MMX Pentium CPU with success.
I was very young at the time this stuff was current so I am not familiar with what was available for upgrade options. I have read about "power leap" adapters to move to MMX or AMD based processors as well as "overdrive" processors for socket 7 boards but compatibility can be questionable. I can grab a 200Mhz regular Pentium on ebay but with prices very cheap I wanted to ask if there was something better to try. Perhaps a Pentium MMX 233Mhz or an AMD K6-3?
Any help is appreciated with understanding this old technology, converters, and my options.
Here is an old site with info I found around my board. http://www.oocities.org/sjg/pb770.html#Jumpers
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I was very young at the time this stuff was current so I am not familiar with what was available for upgrade options. I have read about "power leap" adapters to move to MMX or AMD based processors as well as "overdrive" processors for socket 7 boards but compatibility can be questionable. I can grab a 200Mhz regular Pentium on ebay but with prices very cheap I wanted to ask if there was something better to try. Perhaps a Pentium MMX 233Mhz or an AMD K6-3?
Any help is appreciated with understanding this old technology, converters, and my options.
Here is an old site with info I found around my board. http://www.oocities.org/sjg/pb770.html#Jumpers
Here is a pic
