PIII 800 Overclocking Success

[acroig]

Guys:

If anyone has checked PriceWatch lately you'll find that the PIII 800 has gone down to $188 OEM or $207 Retail. I know the 800 won't overclock as high as a 700e, but I can't find a guaranteed 700e @ 933 or higher for less than $250.

I'm planning on upgrading my 500e @ 715 for x-mas and I was considering the 800. What do you guys think would be the better way to go (and no, I'm not replacing my BE6-II so AMD is out for me right now). Thanks to all!

Alex

 

[Phiton]

I am running a retail 800E w/alpha, crucial pc133 cas2 on an Aopen ax6bc pro2 Millinium board. Runs very stable @124 fsb w/1.75V. Runs seti@home 24/7 no problem. No sweat with gaming either. Absolutely refuses to boot @133 however. I will not raise the voltage higher to try and join the ghz. club.
You are considering an upgrade that will get you little more than 200mhz more than you are currently running. That increase will not be very obvious in anything but the most demanding applications. But, we all like to upgrade and the 800E is a stable & cool running processor.
I believe it is a quality product @ a fair price.
Merry Christmas
Phiton

 

[bonkers325]

acroig
u need a chip email me
700@933 or 700@1050
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[Trifecta]

why bother with such an expensive upgrade....

Just get a really nice video card. That p3500 @ 700 screams with raw speed. You wont find a bottleneck in your system there. If youre into gaming, a new geforce 2 gts would speed up your system in a HUGE way...

I have a P3 700e and it runs at 933, but I took it back down 800ish, because I only got about 10 fps extra and it wasnt worth the heat ... I would rather sit on this chip with maximum stability instead of worrying about the superspeeds.

I would also recommend looking into a new HDD, the ata100s seem to be so much faster. Or, you could always up your ram...

 

[acroig]

Thanks again to all who responded.

Phiton and Trifecta: I understand what you are saying. I just got a WD 30GB ATA 100 hard drive on sale at Best Buy and I'm very happy with it (I have it running on the ATA 33 channel b/c the HighPoint controller on my Abit sucks on performance). On the memory front I'm running a stick of no name PC-100 128mb ram (CAS 3) that I believe is what keeps me at 143 FSB and not 150 (the 500e BTW is at 715 on 1.6 volts!). That leaves the vid card. Currently I have a Hercules MX at 200/230. I could have done better there but I felt that I didn't want to spend too much when the next gen cards are 3 to 4 months away. Despite the lackluster performance, I like the V5 5500, due to FSAA, but it does not like a FSB higher than 130 The GeForce Ultra cards kick booty, but waaaaay too expensive for me.

Maybe I'll just wait and see? Thanks again.

Alex

 

[KR]

On the PIII-800E

I was looking for an inexpensive but significant upgrade to my BX6 Rev2 w/ Celeron 300a @ 464. At first I looked at the 700e as the way to go but when I figured in the cost of new RAM to replace the PC100 in the system the upgrade got more expensive. If I wanted to save the RAM by going to a new motherboard it still was way up there in the $350 range so here's what I ended up with:

BX6 Rev 2 (same ol' motherboard)
PIII 800/100/256 8 X 117 = 936 MHZ @ 1.7V *NEW*
160 MB CAS2 PC100 @ CAS3 for overclock (same ol' memory)
Voodoo3 2000 AGP @ 172/172 (samw ol' video card)
etc etc

I bought a retail chip for $216.00 from Onvia and got in on one of the $50.00 off deals so the whole upgrade which has doubled my system speed came up to $166.01 (shipping included).

To celebrate the upgrade I've ordered a Golden Orb and added a case fan and will see if I can get it stable at 992MHZ - runs there but not stable. (another 20.00 for HS and fans)

For me the 800E was a simple, straightforward way to make a leap in speed without buying a bunch of new stuff. the 936MHZ speed seems to be a pretty regularly attainable speed with the 800's - pretty mild overclock and all the old stuff (from last year) still plays well.

 

[aceO07]

i have an 800eb.. i'm running it at 900mhz @150cas2.. perfectly stable. i have an asus cusl2 with mushkin v2. maybe i shouldn't have bought 800eb, but i don't need that much more speed and it's too late to change my mind now..! really!!

 

[compuwiz1]

<< but I can't find a guaranteed 700e @ 933 or higher for less than $250. >>



You cant???