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Beating on a Celeron 800/128L2 (s370)

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blakeatwork

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I'm sitting here at work, and I'm dreaming of a "better performing" box. I've already bumped up the FSB to 112x8 for 896, but I'm wondering how far I can push it... It's currently running at 33 celcius (I don't run SETI on it... no point), so I'm curious as to what temperature I can expect from this beast... It's on stock cooling, and I'm not about to aste my own money on this thing, but I'd like to get as much out of it as possible, seeing as how my accounting program takes up most of the resources... I'd like to be able to minimize my windows without WinAMP going all chunky while the window closes... help a poor guy out... 😀

 
If it is a cDO stepping cpu (most likely is) raise the core voltage to about 1.80v-1.85v and crank that puppy to the 133MHz fsb. It should run 1066MHz easily, maybe reaching 1150MHz. My daughter has the 850 Celeron running 1190MHz at 1.90v. Don't worry about heat, it won't get much warmer at all.
 
What type of motherboard do you have? If you have a BX chipset board, then you would need to worry about running the AGP bus (and PCI on the older ones) way out of spec. As rogue1979 says, it would be possible to pump it up over a gig, on the right motherboard. Temperature at 33ºC is not bad - don't worry unless it starts hitting 45-50ºC. If you ARE worried, then spend a few bucks on better cooling. If the motherboard has a socket and not a slot, then you could probably get a nice large HSF, such as the GC68 from SVC. It uses a fairly quiet 80mm fan and can handle the lower speed Athlon XP temperatures. I think it's currently on special at $4.99.
 
Awesome guys, thanks...

It IS cD0, which gives me more confidence to do this... it's at 33 now, but that's sitting under my desk in a little alcove... I think I'll push it up to about 1000 later today... and if she don't work... just reset the BIOS.... 😀

thanks again guys..

 
Remember if your board does support a 1/4 pci divider for 133MHz fsb speeds, you may have instability from high pci/agp bus speeds at 115-132MHz. Your divider will still be 1/3 until you hit 133MHz, so you pci or agp card could choke at like 120MHz, but the cpu has not reached it's limit. I haven't seen an 800 yet that hasn't reached 133MHz for 1066MHz. Just bump the voltage up to 1.75-1.85v and you will be stable providing your board is made to operate at 133.
 
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