366mhz Celeron, good overclocker?

[Luden]

My friend gave me an old unopened box of 366mhz celerons he had laying around, any clues on what these can handle? I guess i could just experment with 5 of them... Any suggestions on a cheap board?

Thanks
Luden

 

[percboy]

The 300a celery was the classic O/C`er,
I think it started the O/C`ing "revolution"
Check your 366 here ;go to CPU database
Oh yeah.. find yourself a Abit BH6 board ...Ebay $40-50

 

[Luden]

Thank you percboy, that is exactly what i was looking for. Looks like 620ish is the highest i can go air cooled, but i will learn that the hard way.

 

[Jhhnn]

Many of them are good overclockers, the s370 variety anyway. BH6 is a good board, you'll probably need a slotket. There are others, I have a ms-6309 that will also do the job, also has official 133fsb and a 1/2 agp divider just in case you want to upgrade further....

Check the anandtech archives for roundups/reviews from about two years ago for more candidates....

 

[Luden]

Thanks for the information, I'll probably just go for the cheapest one. i'm not really looking at a long term computer i'll just use it for seti until it fries. And it will have 6 lives, unless i find a better use for them but i dont think they can be worth much..

 

[Colt45]

most of the PPGA 366's did 550 a default vcore, others needed a bit of a voltage jacking 2.1-2.3v, and a few couldnt make it.

still decent chips though, how many do you have?

/me needs to build a rig for my sis. C366 would probably work decent

 

[Zap]

Back in the day I sold "pre tested" Celeron 366@550 PPGA chips. I even sold two to the guy who runs TheTechZone.com and he was able to get both running around 600MHz in an Abit BP6 (dual CPU). I only tested for stability at 550.

 

[Netopia]

I've still got a few low-end servers at work using BP6's and dual 366's at 550. If you are looking for nice, low cost Linux boxes, these work nicely because you can use PC100 Memory (at 550 the memory is running at 100), they have HTP 366 on board, so you can do IDE Raid. They really are nice little work horses.

The only downside is that I would only use them if you have old memory and drives laying around since you can get soooo much bang for the buck buying newer stuff.

Cheers,

Joe