I don't see any difference with my cel566@850...

[coolnicklee]

Hi guys...
I am new to this overclocking business... I have bought Cel566 and overclocked to 850 with alpha heatsink and LOUD Delta fan... Problem is... I don't feel any differences...
I had PentiumII 266 before and it seems like even with cel 566@850, I just can't feel if there is any differences... Is there something wrong with my system???

And one more question... one of my friend says I won't feel the differences from oveclocking unless I play intensive 3d games... Would overclocking help to improve performance in improving other applications like Windows, and Photoshop???

I have benchmarked using sandra and it whos improvement in CPU and CPU multimedia benchmark... But just can't feel the differences... Takes so long to load Windows or to shut down windows...

System specs...
Asus CUV4X
Celeron 566@850 with 1.6V
64MB PC100 generic ram
6.4G Maxtor HD
Matrox G400 32MB DH
SOHO 10/100 Ethernet Card
SBLive Value

 

[DarthAnus]

I upgraded from a Celeron 366@567 to a 533a@800. In real world performance, I saw very little improvement. I think that it is mostly to due with the way Intel partially crippled the cache on the celeron2 chips.

 

[koldklock]

You should notice a difference in most games; going from a P2 266 to a C2 850 is quite a jump, even with a crippled cache.

 

[JJ8]

With 64mb ram and a slower 6.4 gb drive, you are cutting your system off at its knees! 64mb ram is going to force your system to page to disk if you run any other program besides windows - so you are starving whatever processor you have in your board. Upgrade your memory first, then your dive next. You'll see one heck of a difference over your old 266.

Jay

 

[mchomicz]

Unless you perform CPU stressing tasks on a regular basis (read - digital cotent creation, CAD, scientific calculations, etc), you won't see much if any diference moving to a faster CPU.
Just like your friend suggested - 3D games are a very good benchmark for noticing CPU speed. Consider this: in most applications, other than digital content creation and such, you use peak CPU's power for very, very brief moments at a time. In 3D games, however, you constantly "interact" with your CPU's peak performance. Assuming you have a decent video card, the speed at which the PC will draw each frame of the game is in large part dependent on your CPU performance.
If it wasn't for games, I'd still be using a 233MHz Pentium ;-) And that K6-3 450 I have sitting around is a rocket for anything other than games. Sure, Windows loads faster on my latest machine, but it's proablby maninly becasue the hard drive and memory I have are much faster than on my older computers...
So if you use your computer to read email, browse the web and write an occasional letter in MS Word, and deploy an 850MHz CPU to do so, you have fallen victim to the marketing of CPU makers ;-) For those tasks, your 266P2 was more then enough.

 

[coolnicklee]

Thank you all for the information...

I am waiting for the new ran to arrive... Any suggestion for the HD?

 

[Tetsuo316]

go with an ata66 or ata100 drive, depending on what your motherboard supports. the important thing to focus on is to get a drive that's 7200rpm or faster. i prefer ibm drives myself as they tend to be a bit more reliable than western digitals or quantums.

 

[xtreme2k]

i upgraded from C366@567 to P3/700@868

already feel huge difference

 

[Jugernot]

Your hard drive is slowing you down. Buy a new one if you want a nice speed gain.