Overclocking a Celeron 1.7GHz - Help!

[mooojojojo]

Anyone has their 1.7 celery overclocked? If so can you tell me the settings you used? I heard that it can easily reach 2.26 but I can't make it.

I'm using a Gigabyte GA-8PE667 mobo. I set the FSB to 133. Change the memory multiplier from 2.66 to 2 (my memory is just DDR266).
Rried several settings for the CPU voltage (from 1.750 to 1.850) and for the memory also - but it just won't work well - it will restart while booting or would boot with no video. Or the Windows would freeze... The PCI/AGP clocks remain at 33/66MHz.

This is using the retail Intel heatsink (I think I saw people have it running at 2.26 with it) and there are 2 fans on the back of the PC.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[DaveSimmons]

You sure you aren't confusing P4 1.7A northwood with Cel 1.7 willamette for reaching 2.26? It's the northwoods that are the super-overclockers, and the slowest northwood celeron is the 2.0.

 

[mooojojojo]

well even Anand's review of the 1.7 celeron mentioned that it easily reached 2.26 with stock heatsink. but maybe I'm mistaken?

if the northwood celerons are the ones that are easily overclocked. does it mean that the 2.0GHz can reach 2.66 without too much hassle?

edit: engrish.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: mooojojojo
well even Anand's review of the 1.7 celeron mentioned that it easily reached 2.26 with stock heatsink. but maybe I'm mistaken?

Then it must be possible for some Cel 1.7's but a 33% overclock isn't a sure thing -- people bought a lot of P4 1.6A's to overclock to 133 FSB and not all of them worked either even with the OC-friendly Northwood core.

 

[bgeh]

Originally posted by: mooojojojo
well even Anand's review of the 1.7 celeron mentioned that it easily reached 2.26 with stock heatsink. but maybe I'm mistaken?

if the northwood celerons are the ones that are easily overclocked. does it mean that the 2.0GHz can reach 2.66 without too much hassle?

edit: engrish.

yes, tom's hardware got theirs to 3.0GHz
but i would rather get a XP 1700+
THG showed benchmarks where the celeron 3.0GHz chip losing to a XP1700+

 

[mooojojojo]

Originally posted by: bgeh

Originally posted by: mooojojojo
well even Anand's review of the 1.7 celeron mentioned that it easily reached 2.26 with stock heatsink. but maybe I'm mistaken?

if the northwood celerons are the ones that are easily overclocked. does it mean that the 2.0GHz can reach 2.66 without too much hassle?

edit: engrish.

yes, tom's hardware got theirs to 3.0GHz
but i would rather get a XP 1700+
THG showed benchmarks where the celeron 3.0GHz chip losing to a XP1700+

well if you lived where I do, you wouldn't get the XP . there are no retail XPs here. no brand power supplies. no brand coolers. and if I get an XP chip and it dies on me I'm not getting a new one since it's pretty costly (considering paychecks in Bulgaria). so no thanks .

a celeron 1.7 should be enough for me (infact this is my neighbors Celery we're overclocking at the moment) when I get it - but it won't be too bad if I can get it to 2.26 .

ok anyone with a northwood celeron 2ghz overclocked at 2.66? are all 2ghz celerons northwood cores?

 

[mooojojojo]

oh.. and I figured that the 845PE mobo has a longer upgrade path... so that's a pretty important qualification for me too

 

[mooojojojo]

uh.. me again.. back on topic - so the 1.7 celeron is NOT a guaranteed OC to 2.26 by any means, right? I was just wondering if we were doing something wrong.

 

[bgeh]

AFAIK, the Athlon XP 1700+ and the celeron 1.7 are at the same price

 

[mooojojojo]

Originally posted by: bgeh
AFAIK, the Athlon XP 1700+ and the celeron 1.7 are at the same price

yup that's right.. but the Celeron has 3yr warranty, the XP 2 weeks. and I have not heard of a Celeron overheating and burning - while I've heard it a lot about Durons and Athlons :\ I really wanted to get the XP - seeing as it is much faster and all... but the guys at the firm I'm getting the parts from advised me not to - they say they received too many Athlon systems that have strange problems which are not easily diagnosed.. otherwise I would've gone the NForce2/XP way..

 

[vegetation]

I was able to get mine to 2.8 by simply upping the fsb speed, as my motherboard has no voltage control.

if the northwood celerons are the ones that are easily overclocked. does it mean that the 2.0GHz can reach 2.66 without too much hassle?

edit: engrish.