What to expect from a Celery 433?

[ThreeDollarBill]

Is it reasonable for me to expect my Celeron 433 to go up to 585 (6.5x90) cooled by a golden orb?
Or should I go for a bus speed of 83, but run the risk of frying my PCI cards?

 

[Tominator]

Sell it. It isn't worth the hassle. The only Celerons that were any good were the 366@550. If yours OCs, and is stable, it will be a minor miracle.

What motherboard do you have?

 

[Technosnob]

I ran TWO systems with Cel 433s at 540 very successfully BM6 MBs. Sufficient CPU and Case cooling is absolutely necessary. I then upgraded my Abit BM6 motherboard Bios and stuck in Cel II 633s that are still running at 880. I am using a 3DFXCool LilMoFo fan and heatsink in both systems. Celerons are indeed worth overclocking. Why not, if you have the chips, the extra speed is free! Just so you know I am not too one sided, I also have a third system with an AMD Tbird 900 overclocked to 1000 (and rising), with an ABIT KT7-Raid motherboard and two Maxtor 30GB in raid stripe configuration. I will say that if you are going to buy/build from scratch, the best bang for your buck currently is the Duron chip which also overclocks well.

 

[Peridium]

I have second computer system with a Celeron 433MHz running at 585MHz right now using the standard Intel heatsink with thermal compound. CPUID actually reports the CPU running at 589MHz. I'm using a Microstar MS-6163 Pro mainboard. When this used to be my primary computer I actually had it running at 618MHz (95MHz bus).

 

[GL]

I must have a crappy chip or I'm just not trying hard enough. I have a Celeron 433 running at 520 rock solid. At 541, it will post into windows but is not very stable and will crash after about 15-20 minutes of divx-encoding or "randomly" during some heavy Quake III matches.

-GL

 

[ThreeDollarBill]

I'm also using an MSI 6163Pro motherboard.
I can OC to 488 (6.5x75) and I seem to have hit the roof at 618 (6.5x95). I'm hesitant to try any of the in-between speeds since I've heard you can do permanent and immediate damage (ie: fry) to cards on the PCI bus (I'm not sure about how this applies to the AGP bus).

Is this true?
Can I try any of the in-between speeds safely?

 

[Peridium]

If you can run at 618MHz fine then leave it at that. You shouldn't have to worry about frying anything. It's very unlikely that anything would fry, at worst it just won't work.

 

[CraigRT]

Your chances of hitting anything higher than 83 are fair, 83 should be a good chance, that equals around 540 MHz, more is possible, it should do 540 though.