what is the best celeron (.13) and motherboard combo for overclocking

[dannybin1742]

i want to build a very overclockable celeron system. what is the best price to overclock celeron (.13). and what motherboard should i use, where i can change the fsb in the bio by 1mhz increments. also i'd like a board that has raid, and pci dividers. i'd like to hit 160fsb/mem if at all possible without destroying the hard drive controllers. BTW what mem should i get that can hit 160 easily?

 

[AndyHui]

ASUS TUSL2, Celeron 1.10A GHz should do you well.

 

[rogue1979]

None of the Celerons will get you a 160MHz fsb. The best bet for a higher fsb is the Celeron 1.0a, maybe 142-150 with a little luck. If you want to reach a 160MHz fsb than you will have to shell out the money for a Tualatin version, not worth the $179 vs $80 price difference.

 

[AndyHui]

Excuse me??

Where are you getting this $100 price difference from????

A Tualatin Celeron 1.1A GHz costs $90, and a Coppermine Celeron 1.1 GHz costs $84. That's a $6 difference.

 

[oldfart]

I would pick the 1.0A over the 1.1A. 160 FSB ain't gonna happen. You should be able to get to 140 -145 or so, 1.4 - 1.45 GHz.

 

[rogue1979]

Andy, I don't think you read his post clearly, he said a .13 micron cpu and that he wanted to hit a 160MHz fsb!
As far as fast SDRAM I found that Tonicom was able to hit 162MHz cas 2 at an I/O voltage of 3.6v.

 

[chemhaqr]

<< ASUS TUSL2, Celeron 1.10A GHz should do you well. >>



My ST6 was more stable than my TUSL2. GO with a ABIT ST6 mobo and a 1.0A or if you want to get snazzy go with a PHILLI 1.2GHz chip as most(98%) do 1.6+GHz. Mine will do 1650+MHz! I have tried 2 PIII tualatins @ 1.2GHz. I found they will do ~1600MHz. I have tried 3 1.2GHz cel-t's and also one 1.0a cel-t also. One PHILLI 1.2GHz cel-t did as I said 1650MHz the other two around 1550 to 1600MHz. The others were Malay and needed excessive vcores to hit 1550+MHz. Both needed 1.775+V. One actually one did 1600MHz but needed 1.85v to do it. The PHILLI cel-t did 1.6GHz on 1.55v to begin with but needed 1.6 to be stable. The highest I loaded windows at was 1.68GHz. The 1.0a was a PHILLI chip also and did 1.33GHz on 1.55~1.6v. I got it to run benchies at 1500MHz on a 150MHz bus but it was not 100% stable there.

Check this link! I did 177fsb with my PIII tualatin and hit 1600MHz+.
1600MHz/177MHzFSB PIII tualatin

I also hit 1840MHz with my old cel-t 1.2GHz on dry ice. I will leave that link also.
1840MHz cel-t

My new cel-t should hit 1950MHz or higher on dry ice(-70 deg. C).

 

[Auric]

I have been considering a new Cel-T system for o'erclocking also but since the P4 DDR SiS 645 chipset boards seem to be solid and are available at the same price or less than an i815EP (which seems to be necessary for quality compared to equivalent SiS or VIA chipset boards in the same class) and ditto for memory and everything else being of equal cost, the only difference is $75 for the C 1.0A or 1.1 compared $150 for the P4 1.6A. The latter seems more bang for the bizuck as well as proving a cheaper upgrade path compared to PIII-S.

What say you?

 

[AndyHui]

rogue1979: I don't think you read his post clearly.

A 0.13 micron processor IS a Tualatin.

 

[dannybin1742]

hey chemhaqr

can you lock the pci speed or what do you do at that high fsb speed to not screw up your pci cards and apg port?

are there dividers?

 

[rogue1979]

Wow, I don't get it. I never said anything about any cpu not being a Tualatin???? Any .13 micron Intel cpu that is not a P4 is a Tualatin, be it a Pentium 3 or a Celeron flavor.

Dannybin said he wanted to hit a 160MHz fsb with a Celeron .13 micron. You suggested a 1.10A with an 11 multiplier, how is that gonna get him a 160MHz fsb? I simply stated that the way .13 micron Celerons are overclocking, the 1.0A version would get him closer to 160MHz fsb than the others with a higher multiplier, even if they can reach a higher speed. I then pointed out that the only way to reach a 160MHz fsb with a Tualatin cpu is to get the Pentium 3 version, which costs about $80 more for the 1.13 version, or $100 more for the 1.2GHz version. You might have been confused when I suggested he would have to shell out the money for a "Tualatin," meaning Pentium 3 not Celeron. Because all the vendors are calling the Pentium version a Tualatin and the Celeron version a Celeron.

 

[AndyHui]

Ah...I see the misunderstanding.

 

[chemhaqr]

The ST6 is awesome at these bus speeds. I know of others hitting 140MHz fsb-47MHz PCI-1/3 dividers(WHY I DO NOT KNOW) with the ST6. These speeds for the ST6 are a cake walk. No there are no 1/5 dividers. The ST6 is the best IMHO. Many think the GA-60xet is very good also but I am going to stay with the ST6. Plenty of headroom you know! The GA-60xet seems a little buggy.

 

[rogue1979]

My fault, after reading my post again I can see where one could get confused.

 

[Richardito]

As far as the memory the Tonicom PC-166 and the Infineon (CompUSA) chips are really great and can reach 145+MHz's @CAS 2! I currently have an ABIT VH6T mobo with a Celery 1.0A which I can run over 140MHz FSB. I just got the CPU yesterday, so I'm just beginning to get all the juice out. It can now run @1.44GHz @1.58v (the max the mobo lets me use).