celeron overclocking

ScuffScuff Southwestern, Pennsylvania
edited February 2004 in Hardware
I have a 1000 mhz celeron processor. Is it ok to overclock it and by how much? Anyone know?

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  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    sure it's ok. by how much depends on the chip. just keep raising the FSB until it can't go any higher. I doubt you're gonna get much of an OC out of that chip if it's a socket 370 chip though. actually i have no idea how much room you've got with it. it's not really worth the effort probably. I doubt you'll get any significant increases in performance.
  • ScuffScuff Southwestern, Pennsylvania
    edited February 2004
    ok I'll try that, now what about a pentium 2 451 mhz?
  • edited February 2004
    It all depends which celeron it is; the coppermine based celeron with 128k L2 cache or the tualatin based celeron which has 256k L2 cache. The coppermine based one won't go too much further(1200-1333 usually) but the tualatin based one should be able to go 1400-1600. You just need to up the fsb speed up slowly by steps and see what it will do. Also, watch your temps but neither series is hard to cool with a decent hsf.
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    i doubt you'll get much more than like 30 mhz with that chip as i believe they were the end of that chip line. again, not really worth the effort.
  • ScuffScuff Southwestern, Pennsylvania
    edited February 2004
    alright heres the info on the processor: celeron sl5xt 1000/128/100/1.75v.
    Is this one the most or least improvable. It is a socket 370
  • ScuffScuff Southwestern, Pennsylvania
    edited February 2004
    Is there a way to monitor the cpu temp without going into the bios everytime?
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited February 2004
    mbm5
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    If you'd have listened to me and your dad and bought a good system the first time, you wouldn't have to ask these questions now!

    Everyone else - relax, I know him personally.
  • ScuffScuff Southwestern, Pennsylvania
    edited February 2004
    quiet nerd boy!
  • edited February 2004
    Scuff, run a google search on "motherboard monitor" and you will easily find it for monitoring your temps. Also, since that is a coppermine based celeron, you won't have too much headroom for overclocking. However, if your mobo is fairly recent and supports Tualatin based P3's and Celerons, you can get the 1.1-1.3 Celerons based on the Tualatin process for around $35 and have a decent chance of getting a pretty good overclock out of it. If you happen to get a tB1 stepping Celeron, you stand to have a good chance of a 1.6-1.7 overclock for pretty cheap. If you have an older mobo that doesn't natively support the Tualatin procs, you can get an upgrade adapter at strattoncomputers, but I don't know what the price on the adapters are.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    He got his 1000 Celeron running at 1100 Mhz by moving the FSB to 110. I moved it up to 118 and got 1180 Mhz. Obviously the multiplier is locked at 10.

    The BIOS has steps for 124, 133, and more above that, but since the computer has PC133 memory, I doubt it'll go any higher than 133.
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