should i get a celeron 533, 566, or 633?

[toph99]

for some reason, on www.onvia.ca, the celeron 633 is the cheapest of them all. will it overclock as well as a 566 or 533? thanx

 

[MadRat]

The 533 and 566 were discontinued.

 

[BlackMamba]

I thought only th 533 was discontinued...

David @ www.cputester.com

 

[JawaJedi]

I think the reason that the 533 and the 566 are more expensive are because they are discontinued, MadRat is right. Also, i'm not sure where i read this, so take this with a grain of salt, but i think that the 566 and the 533 overclock better than the 600 or the 633, because the 566 can do 850 easy... but of course it always depends on what you get, (batch, week, etc.)

-jawajedi

 

[rigor3]

533 is most likely to hit 800 (and probably 850)
566 is like 70% likely
633 , i dunno about that, probably not very likely.

I've never been happier with my 533 @ 840, the most stable chip i've ever seen for such an overclock (1.6V)

 

[squirrel dog]

The 566 is the one I would get,although the 533 is a very good overclocker.The multiplier for the 633 is too high for a 100mhz fsb o/c,unless you are very lucky or have Extreme cooling.

 

[rigor3]

I've just ordered the $80 shipped celeron 633, looks like a good bit of people over in the fat wallet.com forum are reporting 950->1026 mghz . for $80 on top of my $38 soyo (overstock.com) bx mobo, thats quite a kick for the total board price
of
mobo $38 shipped
633 $80 shipped
MSI6905 $14 shipped

total 132 $ for the rig.

The best i've seen for cheap durons is like $60 chip $145 mobo, $30 cooling system. So i'm nearly at 50% of the cost for like 80-90% of the speed.

imo thats a deal

 

[etech]

rigor3, report back in when you get it all together and let us know how far you can get with it.

In other words, don't count your Mhz until Oda says so.

 

[Goi]

If you want a more gauranteed overclock, C533A is the way to go. AFAIK almost all of them do 850MHz at some voltage. C566s also have a relatively high percentage of doing 850MHz, but not as much. Mine needs 1.8V to do it. C633s are almost gauranteed to NOT do 950MHz.

Remember, with a C533A, you can go on to use FSBs beyond 100MHz, but with a C566, if you don't hit 100MHz, you'll probably gonna have to go down to 83MHz FSB, depending on what mobo you have.

 

[Doctorweir]

I agree with the others. Better get yourself a 533 or 566 so you get some sure overclockers. I experienced only very very few 566 cellys not able to overclock to at least 850. Mine's going beyond 900, but I keep it cooler and go with 860 (enough performance for me so far, anyway the bottleneck is the graphboard )
So better spend some more money for a lower multiplier and get more o/c performance...
I also agree to the fact that intel's no longer producing the small celerons, cos they are too overclocker-friendly and the fab capacity is needed for the other c'mine models (anyone seen a 1133MHz C'mine...?).
So long...

 

[rigor2]

Wonder if the new celerons are equivalent to CB0 or CC0 cores. That would be an interesting topic. Since celerons are just failed p3 fab's , in theory CC0's could be making there way into the celeron 2 stock. Which would mean likelihood of 1ghz or more.

Anyone care to comment on that?

 

[Doctorweir]

Failed P3s? I always heard that the cellys have their own production process and are not just by 128k ripped P3s...?
Otherwise a Cc0-Stepping Celly could be able to hit higher frequencies than the old ones...

As I am informed, the Cc0 stepping is applied to all P3-Coppermines, even the lower-frequency ones, while rising the core voltage from 1.65 to 1.7 and in spite of this reducing the heat produced.
If they apply the new stepping to the cellys, overclockers dreams may become true and almost every celly may be able to hit the 1GHZ mark

 

[Eug]

All Celeron 533A are cB0, regardless of the date of manufacture.

All the rest of the Celerons are either cB0 (older ones) or cC0. There are no Celerons in existence with the other funky steppings.

Edit: Errrr... I am talking Celeron 533A and up.

 

[vvvvvv]

566 is the best