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had a similar problem a few weeks ago. i lowered the overclocking up my chip, lowered my ram clock to within specs (from 133 to 100) and then updated the newest via 4 in 1 drivers and the problem's gone away. not sure which one did it, but one of these did. the msi motherboard seems...

scraping the pad off with a razor often scratches the heatsink bottom (which isn't that great anyways, but you still might want to avoid it). Scrape what you can off with your nail, you don't have to be too picky. Then spray some WD-40 on it, let it sit a couple of minutes, and the rest with...

ordered it from monarchcomputer.com. reason is they had great price on the msi k7t pro2A mobo, so i just ordered the cpu from them as well. weird thing is, they don't even list the 650 athlon on their product page. you might have to call them up. thing is, i don't think it's all that great a...

you would think this chip would overclock well, but it doesn't really overclock much better than the week 23 durons (so far at least). I've gotten it up to around 850 before i start running into stability problems. I'm using a Taisol 733 w/ arctic silver. anyways, i guess it is a 650 Athlon...

Hi: I ordered a Duron 650 from an online store, but when it came and I looked at the chip (no box, already installed on mobo) the top read "Athlon" and CPUID reports it as an Athlon w/ 256 L2 cache. A little bit confused b/c I thought the first socket A athlons were 700 mhz. Chip...

careful with the 633's from buy.com. i got two in october, both cB0's and both couldn't do 950 100% stable, even with arctic silver and GORB. i don't know if the cC0's are supposed to be any better, but don't expect too much out of the 633's. a lot of people have good experiences, but if you...

there's a link somewhere in one of these forums... it's on the intel web page, but it's kind of hard to find. if you want to get to the page, try a search for "stepping" on this fourm.

Blayze, is that a cC0 stepping or a cB0 stepping? thanks

thanks for the input. btw, i'm using the msi master slotket and this is my second celeron 633 cB0 chip (both retail). the first wouldn't even boot into windows @ 1.95v. is it possible it's my mobo/some other component or is my luck just bad and i got stuck with 2 dud chips? from what i've been...

that's cC0 stepping, retail version. (you can tell by the SL4NY S-spec)

hi: i got my celeron 633 to hit 950 @ 1.95 volts. it's the retail cB0 stepping that i bought from buy.com. i can run regular programs and games (quake III) without problems, but when i run the prime95 torture test, it stops because of a "hardware error". is this most likely b/c of...