Overclocked not as fast as stock?

[Grendel99]

Lets say you have the following rigs...

Rig #1

-ASUS CUSL2-C
-P3-700E o/ced to 933
-128mbs of PC133 cas2
-Geforce2 GTS 32mb DDR

Rig #2

-ASUS CUSL2-C
-P3-933EB
-128mbs of PC133 cas2
-Geforce2 GTS 32mb DDR

Would the overclocked processor be as fast as the stock 933? If the stock 933 is faster, how much faster? I was just wondering becuase it seems like every person I know in person thinks overclocking is the devil. And everyone I know online thinks your a freak if you don't overclock. What are the +'s and -'s of overclocking?

Thanks

 

[kylebisme]

no, nitehr is faster they are both the same. the only real - to overclocking is that that p3700e may or may not run at 933, an even if it does then it might not be stable. the + is that you get the most out of what you have.

 

[BradS]

The reason you have equal performance is the 700e needs to run at 133 to give you 933. And that is exactly what 933eb does. A 933eb shares the same multiplier (7) as does the 700e.

 

[Grendel99]

Is there benchmarks anywhere that can varify this though? I remember someone telling me that they wouldn't be the same speed even though they have same FSB and multiplier because the cache is designed to run at that speed or something like that. Is that BS or what? What about some more +'s and -'s of overclocking? Like frying hard drives? Frying video cards, etc?

 

[kylebisme]

no the cache runs at full speed no mater what on a coppermine, it will either do it or it won't. there are no benchmarks on this because it it the same thing, even the computer wont know that it is realy a 700e after you increse the fsb to133 it will post as a 933eb. as for frying sutff, you can fry your harddrives or cards with too high of a pci/agp bus or the chip with too much votage; but you have to try prety hard or just be realy stupid to do it. some p3s will take a 166 fsb, but that leves the pci/agp prety far out of spec and one must be carful to pick hardware that can take it, as for a 100->133 overclock, most motherboards will run your cards at defaut frequncies and the only thing out of spec is the chip. if you want to overclock a chip just research a bit on the limmits of your hardware first and then take it slow and easy, one step at a time

 

[Jwyatt]

You might be thinking about comparing a celeron OCed @ the same speed as a stock PIII. Yes the PIII will be marginally faster in some apps, but will see a greater gain in others.

 

[Drifter]

Both the same..