oc'ing a celeron on a asus p4p800dx

[dumbhead]

Soon, I'll be able to upgrade to a 2.6 or 2.8 P4C. For now, I have a 1.7 Celeron (Willamette) on my Asus P4P800 Deluxe. I'm ashamed for pairing my POS Celeron with my Sapphire 9600Pro but, it only happened because I had the Celeron and I wasn't able to upgrade my CPU. Anyways, I have heard that my 1.7 Celeron is about as good as a 1GHz P3 and to try and get everything I can out of it, I must overclock it. I've tried just boosting the FSB (it's at 120 right now, giving 2040 Mhz) but I feel as though i should be tweaking the voltage as well. I would like to be able to hit at least 2.2 GHz. Any suggestions?

 

[OverVolt]

2Ghz is probably the most you can pump out of a Willamette, i remember the Willamettes would top out around 2.1Ghz, maybe a little more, and at 2.1Ghz they would be running pretty hot.

Are you sure it's a willamette celeron? Those should be on sock423, and that board is sock478.

Anyway if it IS a Northwood core(which i bet it probably is), you can maybe get at least 2.4Ghz+ with that thing on good cooling, esp since your at 2Ghz without a voltage bump.

 

[dumbhead]

Ya, I'm sure it's a Willamette - its on a .18 micron core (lol) and it has a locked multiplier (if the multiplier wasnt locked, it wouldnt have worked on my board). And yes, its a socket 478 chip. Anyway, thx for reply.