Best Celeron for ocing?

Athlon4all

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I may be getting an Asus CUSL2 cheap, and I'm looking at throwing a Celeron in there, and ocing it. I'm looking primarrily at a 566 FC-PGA and ocing it to 100x8.5, or getting a 800 and setting it to 133x8.0. Any suggestions on a good HSF? According to At's Celeron Ocing guide, a 566 hits 850 eaisly even with the Retail HSF, what about if I got a solid HSF, could a 800 hit 133fsb? Thanks
 

AkumaX

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an 800 would hit 1066 if it was a cD0 stepping, so it would depend on luck :p
a 900 can go 1200 w/ some effort, and all 900's are cD0 stepping
 

Rand

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566's often hit 850, and 600's sometimes hit 900.
The cD0 800's do 1066 much of the time.

None of the above is by any means a guaranteed success of course but the 566 @ 850, and cD0 800 @ 1066 both have a high success rate.
Beyond that you start getting down into less success rates.
850's and 900's both sometimes hit 133MHz FSB but for both it's a very far stretch from guaranteed
 

Richardito

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IMHO Celerons are great overclockers. I just bought a 600 Celeron that easily hits 980MHz and a 633 that hits 1.1GHz. These chips were OEM chips, none were pre-tested, but they easily hit a FSB of 100MHz and above. Very interesting for $31 CPU's. :)