Celeron II running on VIA 133 chipsets, post your success or problems here

[wonder mike]

I bought a celeron II, plugged it into my soyo 7vca (via 133 chipset) only goes to 638 stable. I put it in my soyo 6ba+iv (bx) and it is rock solid at 850. My PIII does 5*150 flawlessly on the 7vca (via 133).Anyone else having problems with the via chipsets?

 

[Compton]

Yes. I'm having nothing but problems. My 533A is maxed at 8x95. I can't get 8x100 no matter what I do. I even got a new power supply and a 120mm fan right on the cpu. I'm using an Alpha too. CPU is at 1.85V and no cigar so far. It's really pissing me off. And it's a week 20 chip. Methinks I should get around 900+ but all I've gotten so far is really pist off.

 

[goog40]

I have a 6VBA-133, but my CII is on backorder. I'm runnning the vba-2ba8 bios with a celeron 466 and I was wondering why it will only let me go up to 83 mhz fsb? I remember when I was using the 2ba2 bios it let me go up to 95 mhz fsb, but if I went to 100 it would identify my computer as a pentiumIII. What's the problem? It'll suck if I have to downgrade my bios just to be able to go past 83 mhz fsb.

 

[mschell]

Please don't run Celerons on Via chipset motherboards.
The Celeron in itself isin't the greatest performing chip, combine it with the poor memory performance on all Via boards and you have a system better suited for your dogs use.
Seriously, Via chipset motherboards sap around 100-150MHz as compared clock to clock to a BX board. This means the same CPU can be run slower on a BX board and still perform the same. BX boards generally allow you to overclock a given chip higher(AGP card allowing) so you get a double poor performance whammy. More bad news for Via is it's UDMA/66 support is generally slower then a UDMA/66 drive hooked to the UDMA/33 port on a BX board, but hey, don't listen to me - read Anand's articles and look at the benchmarks and make your own conclusions if you dare. - M.

 

[compuwiz1]

Mark, exactly. The best combo is a C II on a BX Board. Doing anything different than that, you really should get a PIII.