Has anyone here OCed the Celeron D yet?

[JMoore]

I was just wondering if anyone knows any good ocing Celeron D boards. I was also wondering if any of you guys have any first hand experience ocing these chips and if you have any suggestions. Any help would be appreciated. Thx.

 

[Rock Hydra]

Well, what kind of Celeron D do you have?
My friend OCed his 2.8 to 3.6 I believe with a DFI LANParty 875P RevB board.
Edit: That's a Socket 478 Celeron, mind you...

 

[perdomot]

I OC'd A Cel D 330 to 3.5Ghz on an Asus p4p800-e deluxe. Nice cpu. Mobo was a bit pricey but very good.

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: perdomot
I OC'd A Cel D 330 to 3.5Ghz on an Asus p4p800-e deluxe. Nice cpu. Mobo was a bit pricey but very good.

nicer

 

[JMoore]

Originally posted by: perdomot
I OC'd A Cel D 330 to 3.5Ghz on an Asus p4p800-e deluxe. Nice cpu. Mobo was a bit pricey but very good.

Yeah, I heard people got good results using that board, but I think I'm leaning towards the MSI. It looks really good for the price, and it has integrated video which I want because this system is going to my sister and all she does is websurf anyway.

One question, though. Do I want a Celeron D with the lower default voltages, or one that starts off with a higher default voltage? I know the higher the voltage the more heat it generates, but I wasn't sure what most ppl use?

EX: Voltage 0.956-1.052V or one like Voltage: 1.25-1.4V?

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

May I ask why you are overclocking a cpu that is intended for websurfing? Any Celeron D should be more than adequate for websurfing and you wouldn't notice any real difference.

 

[blckgrffn]

Good question, a faster computer doesn't help the internet at all. I wish it did, actually

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Well... yes it does. My old celeron was so slow that it coudln't even load pages as fast as the browser could send them.

 

[JMoore]

She does other things as well, just mostly websurfs. The Ocing was more of an experiment for myself. I have built a couple computers so far, but I've never overclocked one before. I was thinking this computer would be better to experiment on since the parts are cheaper (better to mess up on this this than a A64) and I heard it overclocks well. I don't plan on overclocking very high at all, I just want to get a feel for what I'm doing. I get the concept and theory I just need to experiment for myself.

 

[Sentential]

I have a friend who overclocked a celly d. He got his up to about 4.2

 

[imported_whatever]

Originally posted by: JMoore

Originally posted by: perdomot
I OC'd A Cel D 330 to 3.5Ghz on an Asus p4p800-e deluxe. Nice cpu. Mobo was a bit pricey but very good.

Yeah, I heard people got good results using that board, but I think I'm leaning towards the MSI. It looks really good for the price, and it has integrated video which I want because this system is going to my sister and all she does is websurf anyway.

One question, though. Do I want a Celeron D with the lower default voltages, or one that starts off with a higher default voltage? I know the higher the voltage the more heat it generates, but I wasn't sure what most ppl use?

EX: Voltage 0.956-1.052V or one like Voltage: 1.25-1.4V?

Lower vcore is better. A CPU of a specific core at a specific vcore and clock will put out a certain amount of heat, whether it is higher than default voltage or not. if you get one with a lower default vcore, you can add more to in to get a decent OC than if it has a high default vcore

Also, I remember seeing somewhere (dunno where) someone who bought a 2.4GHz C-D and accidentally set his mobo to 200FSB instead of 133FSB. It ran fine, p95 etc stable. However, don't assume that most of them will get that nice of results.

 

[blckgrffn]

Hey, sounds like a good reason to OC to me The celly D's go up against the AMD S754 semprons as the best budget oc'ers, the semprons have better performance but the celly D's are supposed to hit very satisfying clock speeds. Sounds like fun I picked up a really cheap 875P mobo of the forums ($60 - retailed for almost $200!) for my mobile celeron 1.8 and that has been running at 3.06 for about 3 months now, solid as a rock and fast, too

Good luck, have fun, and don't break anything

Nat

 

[Aenslead]

Originally posted by: Sentential
I have a friend who overclocked a celly d. He got his up to about 4.2

Agh!! Pictures! Proof!! I want to see that!!

 

[Sentential]

Originally posted by: Aenslead

Originally posted by: Sentential
I have a friend who overclocked a celly d. He got his up to about 4.2

Agh!! Pictures! Proof!! I want to see that!!

Im not sure if he still has them, but I will ask. To be honest you are better off getting a Pentium 505. I have seen kunnak get to 4.5 with his on water.

 

[Zap]

You missed all the fun late last year. I had my Deleron? (yes, I coined this term last year) 320 running at 3.6GHz. Just a quick bump to 200MHz FSB on an Asus P4P800 Deluxe board and a Thermalright XP120 heatsink. I've since found out that it does NOT want to run stable at that speed with lesser coolers.

 

[Valkerie]

don't OC on a PC CHIPS or ECS mainboard under $50 or $60. you'll ruin your chipset and the CPU itself.

 

[sharad]

How about this MSI board...

865PE Neo2-PFISR Extreme Overclock version (Socket 478)
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=528
http://www.msi.com.tw/html/service/techexpress/mainboard/6728v20/page1.htm

 

[aidanjm]

my celeron D 2.4 ghz has been running at 3.6 ghz for months, with no problems, at slightly under default voltage.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: sharad
How about this MSI board...

865PE Neo2-PFISR Extreme Overclock version (Socket 478)

Never used that board. My experience with MSI has been hit/miss. I have an old MSI socket 370 board (VIA Apollo Pro 266 chipset) that has burst capacitors. I have an MSI mATX 865G chipset board that started out with FSB and voltage in BIOS, and MSI slowly weeded out those features from subsequent BIOS revisions. I had an MSI 865PE chipset board (the only one with black PCB color instead of red) and it died, before it died it wasn't much of an overclocker with my Deleron 320 that the Asus board did great with. I have an MSI PT880 chipset board that actually is pretty decent - doesn't allow much overvoltage and SATA doesn't work if overclocked but otherwise it has been stable, fast and overclockable. I have an old MSI 645DX chipset board that was really budget but still works and overclocks fine to this day, though it also had limited overvoltage capabilities.

 

[Zap]

Oh yeah, I also have two MSI FX5900XT video cards. Neither of the two can hardly overclock (unlike all the reviews I read) but work fine at default speeds. I actually like them because the fan is really quiet.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Zap
You missed all the fun late last year. I had my Deleron? (yes, I coined this term last year) 320 running at 3.6GHz. Just a quick bump to 200MHz FSB on an Asus P4P800 Deluxe board and a Thermalright XP120 heatsink. I've since found out that it does NOT want to run stable at that speed with lesser coolers.

my celeron has been happy with a zalman alcu 7000.

 

[Zap]

The chip I had seemed to run pretty hot. Tried it with a Zalman 7000AlCu and it had stability problems due to heat.

 

[Leper Messiah]

sounds like fun. the MSI 645DX is a good OC'er for the money. Did 2.66 with a 2.0 p4 in my dad's machine.

 

[ender11122]

Got my 320 (2.4ghz) up to almost 4ghz (unstable, but it booted). Runs perfectly stable at 3.85 but too many volts for my blood so I keep it at 1.5v/ 3.7 ghz.

BTW, its on water cuz these things get HOT!!!

Asus P4P800 SE

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: L3p3rM355i4h
sounds like fun. the MSI 645DX is a good OC'er for the money. Did 2.66 with a 2.0 p4 in my dad's machine.

Yeah, my board will POST at 180MHz FSB with a mobile Celeron. AGP/PCI should be running WAY out of spec by then... just tried POSTing it, didn't try booting into Windows. I got the board from Fry's waayyyyy back with an OEM Celeron 2.0 that I had running at around 2.9GHz thereabouts. Cost me $99 at a time when retail box Celeron 2.0 was going for around $85. Board seems kinda basic these days, only having 2 channel onboard sound and USB 1.1, no NIC. Currently being used in my HTPC, will be transferred to be used in my file server when I get around to it.