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can a celeron be overclocked

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Name: Arj
Date: October 3, 2002 at 17:17:25 Pacific
Subject: can a celeron be overclocked
OS: celeron 800mhz
CPU/Ram: 256mb SD
Comment:

can a celeron be over clocked for like 10 mins or so?
if yes. how fast can it go?
how do i do it?


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Response Number 1
Name: Jason
Date: October 3, 2002 at 17:54:10 Pacific
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Celeron's have traditionally been the overclocker's choice. How fast you can go depends on the particular chip; I don't think the newest Celeron II models overclock as well as the older ones. In order to do it you have to raise your front side bus speed. If you have a 100MHz fsb you might raise it to 110 or 115 for example. Remember that this will also overclock your PCI bus and AGP card if you have one; it can cause the system to become unstable or lock up, can cause data loss, or even damage components.

In other words unless you know what you are doing you might want to forget the whole thing. Why 10 minutes by the way? just curious.


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Response Number 2
Name: Dave
Date: October 3, 2002 at 18:06:27 Pacific
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Celerons are built using the architecture of their more powerful brothers the Pentiums (II, III & IV). They have similar features, but are designed to run at lower front side bus speeds. They have a locked multiplier so the only way to overclock them is to raise the front side bus speed. Because the arhitecture is the same as the Pentiums, which run on a higher bus speed normally, the Celeron is idealy suited to overclocking, with enough cooling their bus speed can be raised to drive them well over their rated speed. I believe your multiplier is 8 and your bus speed is 100, if you have adequate cooling you could possibly raise your FSB to 133 to run at 1064mhz. Keep in mind that overclocking is running a processor above it's rated speed. Some CPU's will loose stability over their rated speed. System builders generally will put Celerons in cheaper systems because they are a budget CPU and raising FSB rasies the operating speed of the entire system and some of your other components may not be suited to it (Ram, HD, Graphics card, etc) However, overclockers may buy a Celeron to put in a better quality system (133RAM, 7200 RPM ATA 133 HD, Good quality Graphics card with built in cooling, etc) because they know they can push up the speed and performance level at a lower cost.
Some CPU's take better to OCing than others. This is because CPUs are tested in large groups, if they fail the tests at higher speed they are sent down to lower speed groups. So some CPUs may have been designed to be 800s and are sold as 600s (probably very overclockable) where some may be at their peak of stability and not overclock well at all.


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Response Number 3
Name: Mr. Helpless
Date: October 3, 2002 at 18:47:47 Pacific
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I have a 700mhz coppermine celeron, ive done a bit of searching for a site that gives instructions or a prog to oc the fsb but i didnt have any luck, do you guys have any suggestions?


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Response Number 4
Name: Dave
Date: October 4, 2002 at 09:55:06 Pacific
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CPUCool. I have used it and it worked for me. Others have used it and it screwed up their systems.

Arj, listen to Jason. "In other words unless you know what you are doing you might want to forget the whole thing..."


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