950mhz Celeron rig for $133.95 shipped (MOBO+CPU)

[rigor2]

The SOYO SY-V6BE+ 100MHz FSB PII Motherboard is an excellent replacement motherboard that supports 66/75/83/100/103/112/124/133MHz speed CPUs for over-clocking possibilities.

$38.95 (after $20 off 50) overstock.com

Celeron 633 ($coupon off $102.00)
$80

$15 MSI 6905 ($0 off someone new in the forsale/trade forum)


1. Open celeron, place on to msi 6905 slotket, place nice intel fan on chip,
set voltage to 1.8V, set FSB to 100 override.

put on motherboard.
Put ram on.
boot. Run for 12 hours (3dmark 2000,hot cpu stability tester).

Lets see the AMD guys beat that price/performance ratio!

 

[Nessism]

You can't beat that!!! Nice bit of part scrounging Rigor2. I'm also putting together a low buck system and want to run a Celeron. I picked up an Intel SE440BX-2 board for $41 shipped off Egghead auction and I was thinking of getting one of thoes cheap Onvia/Buy.com Celerons. My worry is that the Intel board is 66 or 100 mHz so it's 950 mHz or bust with the 633 Celeron. I am reading lots of posts about people that are not able to get the full 100 mHz out of the Celerons. It sounds like you got a good one. Cool!

 

[tomcat]

Rigor2: I just bought the exact same combination of supplies for my friend. It is indeed an excellent deal.

Here are some additions

For the slocket I recomend buying the one from http://www.1look.com/cpu.htm The price there is $16 with free shipping for an ABIT coppermine slocket it has voltage adjustement and will work great with this combo. The specs for the slocket are at
http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/slotket.htm 1 look computers also has excellent evaluations from reseller ratings http://www.resellerratings.com/vendone.cgi?1LookComputers so you should not have any problems with your purchace.

For the case I reccomend buying one from Chaseshop, they have free shipping which is very important for cases. There are two top choices, both come with 250 watt power supplies. One is an In Win case http://www.mychaseshop.com/product.asp?PID=611330for $49 shipped and the second is a casedge for $46 shipped http://www.mychaseshop.com/product.asp?PID=611624 I ordered the Casedge, should get it any day. If you guys want I can update this thread when it comes. It looks like a very nice case. Here are the specs on it http://www.casedge.com/html/mid-tower_3000sf.htmlMake sure to call ahead to see if they have the cases in stock. The first time I called they didnt, but did a week later.

The best deal for pc133 ram seems to be at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=240913 64mb for $40 shipped. Almost a complete system here for an excellent price.

 

[rigor2]

1. Nobody has yet stepped forward and say:

"I bought a celeron 633 from onvia, and couldn't clock it to 950 @ 1.85V using a quality slotket".

Matter of fact if you search on the 633 thread, you'll see many people running 950 @ 1.7V

This chip , btw is about AS fast as a p3-800 (100fsb) or Athlon 800 (slot-a). Of course in some areas it excels (FPU over p3-800) and some areas (memory io) it lags over both of the others.

I had an old TNT2 Ultra. I considered the Duron @850-900 (depends on your luck) deal. Decided to go Celeron @ 950 (now 980!) and buy a Geforce DDR off someone in forsale/trade. I can tell you if I had duron @950 and the old tnt2 ultra, my new celeron @ 980 plus geforce ddr would spank the hell out of it in games/video.

If i was stuck in a slow 5400 rpm drive setup, i'd also have chosen the celeron and bought a $90 15 gig ibm 75gxp drive. (Which i own now). We're talking about 10 seconds from warm boot to windows ME start menu tops (with AIM,winamp,realplayer,hotmail messenger).

 

[attention]

"Factory Serviced"
That is another expression for refurbished?
And they have a 5-day return policy on those only.

 

[buckeye]

okay...a stuid question...I have a celeron 466 MHz system...can I just replace my 466 chip with the 633 chip on the same MOBO? Also, can I overclock it to 900 some MHZ? thanks..

 

[rigor2]

If you're motherboard supports pentium III chips, yes. RTFM on your motherboard manual.

or look up the part # and go to the respective manufacturers web site and read the product info.

 

[Hawk]

You got a slot 1 motherboard with that 466? And it also depends, some older boards (like LX) don't have the bios update for it and can't recognize the new chip (I tried with a Soyo and their BIOS is like almost 2 years old). Check your motherboard manufacturer's site.

 

[rigor2]

If you got an LX chipset its very unlikely to happen.

 

[buckeye]

the manual says, this is the specs of my CPU. Celeron? 466MHz (w/128KB L2 Cache) PPGA CPU. No more info on it...how do I know if this can support PIII? (here is the link to the specs...I have an e-machine system...

thanks..here is the link

 

[rebuilder]

Anyone having trouble using the Onvia coupon today? I've tried everything on 3 different computers.

 

[Underclocked]

eTower 366id, 366is, 366i2, 400i2, 400ix, 400id, 400idx, 400i3, 433i, 466i, 466id, 466is, 466ix, 500is, 500ix, 500i, 500idx, 533i
Florida-TG/TGA Micro ATX (ATX V1.2 form factor) motherboard, TriGem, Korea
Intel Socket-370 (370pin PPGA Socket) for Intel Celeron CPUs
Intel 440LX core and ITE8673 Super I/O controller
ATI Rage Pro Turbo built-in AGP graphics accelerator with 4MB SGRAM
Crystal CS4280/CS4281 built-in Sound Blaster Pro, MPC-3, MPU-401 compatible Audio
Enhanced Stereo full duplex operation

Buckeye, you have an LX chipset.

 

[buckeye]

thx underclocked...I will wait for another 6 months to throw this MOBO and get a new one...probably then, I can get some chips that can exceed 1 GHz speed, for the same price..(am I too optimistic)???

 

[rigor2]

it'll prolly run the chip underclocked
check to see if your bios or mobo has settings for 75 or 83 fsb. Some lx do.

 

[tran1981]

is there any dual motherboard that can get up to 950+mhz?

 

[Pennstate]

From everything that I've read on the SOYO site. This board does not support FCPGA celerons. The latest bios for this thing is 10/99. Anyone with this combo please confirm.

 

[WhiteMouse]

<< This board does not support FCPGA celerons. >>


I read from somewhere (tomshardware, maybe), if a MB can provide (low) enough V for CPU, it will support FCPGA PIII and C2. Of course, this MB is slot 1, so it won't say it supports FCPGA at all.

 

[Matrixxx]

OK! I'm one of those AMD guys. I sit at 1 Ghz from a $200 Duron 700-Abit KT7-RAID setup. But, that's me. I loathe the evil empire (Microsoft, err Intel [thanks succubiss]), but I feel they are a necessary evil. However, I want to upgrade a family member who is using an Abit BH6 motherboard. I'm not familiar with the Celeron overclocking since his 300A is running at 450 Mhz in the BH6 now.

Question. Can I buy the Abit slotkey and the celeron 633 and overclock and all is well?

Thanks,
Matrixxx

 

[succubiss]

matrixxx, dont you mean intel?

and yes, a bh6 will run a celeron2 on an appropriate slotket.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Buying a 633 doesnt guarantee 950 even with decent RAM and convertor card.

 

[SpotTheCat]

Can someone please tell be if I will be able to get this Celeron and SlotKET to work in an Intel SE440BX-2?

 

[MWebhead]

I've tried to use the Onvia 25 off 100 coupon today but no success, does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Homerboy]

Umm the coupon # I have fro onvia.com seems to be no longer valid... the the # on &quot;slickdeals&quot; and I can't find another!!!

HELP!!! email me!!!

 

[rigor2]

the bh6 will work fine. flash to newest bios, get a MSI6905 slotket! (REALLY GET THAT ONE). and it will all work. I've got a 566 at 850 with that mobo. works awesome.

the 850 is about 2x the speed of a p2-450

 

[Nessism]

Spotthecat,
Some of the Intel SE440BX-2 boards have native support for the coppermine and thus the celermine processors. Check the Intel site to compare your board #'s with thoes listed. If yours is not listed as having native support, it may work anyway but I am not sure. The Intel site mentions the use of slocket adaptors but they have not tested them and thus can not provide clear direction on their use. Read this to say: they are OK, but use at your own risk.