How to: overclock your DC

[--=FamilyGuy=--]

Here is a diagram I did of what you should do to overclock your dreamcast to 240MHZ with a switch to choose between 240 and 200 Mhz (200 being normal)... Personnaly I did it but my buddy broked the lifted pin so my spare dc will now always be overclocked. By he way, I'll order another motherboard for 3$ so i'll OC it back.

It'll also be Possible to do it with a 48Mhz Xtal so the dc will be at 288Mhz... I didn't tested it for now but I will order parts and then try it ! 288Mhz is the record for an overclcoked dc.

240Mhz work well without a dreamcast shell or you need a best fan to chill it out !

Yes Snes emulation is fastest this way but not perfect ... many games are really faster or at perfect speed.(harvest moon ntsc is at about 90% of real speed compared to 70% with an non-overclocked DC)
It should be even more close to perfect with a dreamcast overclocked to 288Mhz but i'd didn't tested it yet, i'll order a 48Mhz Xtal soon.

[edit] 288Mhz DIDN'T WORKED =(

Here's the diagram:



Here's a pic of my overclocked DC motherboard, this Dreamcast got no switch to get back to 200MHZ so it's alway overclocked:



For those who want to know where to find the chip with the 33Mhz signal ... it's under the power supply , between the power supply attachement pins and the ram... also between the edge of the mother board and the Sh4 cpu

I'll post a pic of a real overclocked DC with a switch as soon as I will be able to build it.

I Wish you'll like it !!

-=FamilyGuy=-