Celeron 667 -> 1000, are my odds good?

[HK]

I want to upgrade my system. Will most Celeron 667's hit 1000mhz at 100mhz bus or am I taking a gamble in buying one to OC to 1ghz?

If the odds are not good, where are some good places to get pretested CPUs?

 

[Perryg114]

Well I have a Celeron 667 and it won't boot past 752 Mhz which is pretty bad. Voltage increase did not help. I here the 566 and 600's are good OC chips. Also the PIII-700E seems to be a good OC chip.

Perry

 

[BradS]

The odds are not good. For a pretested cpu, just post a WTB thread in the For Sale/Trade forum. Or just send a private message to compuwiz1 or bonkers325. They will take good care of you.

 

[bacillus]

if you're going to go with the roll of the dice, then make sure you get a cCO stepping core! you may just get a golden chip.

 

[Grendel99]

The Celeron 533's and 566's are the best ones to overclock. Also the P3-700E is one of the best P3's to overclock. I got one Might wanna spend the extra cash and get the P3, cuz in case you can't overclock too well the P3 will still do you nicely.

 

[Mrfrog840]

you might think of putting it in your freezer:|

 

[SlickVic]

The odds of that chip hitting 1000 are about as good as my odds of sleeping with Kathy Ireland:Q...possible, but HIGHLY unlikely...seriously, go with a P3-700E...you'll have much better luck. Grendel99 makes a good point...spend the extra cash and get the P3, in case you can't overclock much the P3 will still do you nicely.

 

[SlickVic]

^

 

[spamboy]

Buy a pretested CPU from egay, there are some guys there that have been selling Celerons that go over 1 GHz since they came out, and have like hundreds of positive feedbacks with no negatives... I haven't actually done this, but I would if I needed to upgrade. $.02

 

[rbownes]

I have a Celeron 633 @ 950. I am using a CUSL2-C with PC133 128mb ram, super orb hsf, Antec SX830 case with one intake fan in the front and 2 outtake fans in the back. Completely stable with motherboard temp of 23C and cpu temp 34C at idle.
I just had to up the voltage to 1.8v.

 

[mrfroni]

rbow, why arent you using 2 intakes in the front? just curious cuz i have almost the same setup as you, same case runnign celery 633@950

 

[4ki]

Hey guys, I am completely new to OCing. I was thinking of taking my 700 Celeron up to whatever I can get that's stable. Now, my system is a Dell dimension L I picked up a while back for a phenominal deal(the 399$ one ^_~) What kind of Heatsick should I use, and what are some projected OC speeds for this chip? Thanks!