what to expect from BD7II and Celeron 1.7 OC?

[BigBadBiologist]

I just picked up an Abit BD7II-RAID for $35 and a P4 Celeron 1.7 for $53. I'm thinking this should be a nice little system for the $88 base price. I'm still waiting for the CPU to come in and I'm starting to get excited cause this will be my first Intel system since my dual Celeron 500/BP6 setup. I was just wondering what people's experiences were with OCing either/both of these components. I have a stick of Samsung PC2700 that hits about 180 no prob so I know that the RAM won't limit the OC at all.

 

[ericboo]

Celeron 1.7 sucks for overclocking. I tried. I now have a Celeron 2.0 and just pushed it up to 2.6ghz with a 132FSB. Went into XP no problems at all, cpu temps are about 41c and it ran the Sandra burn-in wizard under high stress with no lockups. Pretty impressive since it is with the stock heatsink and in a smaller than Shuttle-sized Iwill XP4.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Before I sold it, mine did 2.26GHz. Couldnt test any higher though as it was sold rather quick.

On the other hand, my 2GHz celeron crunching away for TA on the SoB project is @ 2.84GHz with retail cooling.
Kinda a joke CPU if you ask me though. It only does 250,000 cEM's/sec whereas my P4 1.6GHz (Williamate) is only @ 2.304 but crunches those cEM's @ 354,000

Cant wait to get a Northwood

 

[ericboo]

I agree that the Celeron performs visibly slower than my P4 2.4b. It is in my spare machine that is not really doing anything though, so it may just go to my kids.

If you can spare the $20 extra, I would look into the Celeron 2.0 as it is the newer core. Nearly 3.0ghz seems to be reachable, and you are correct, that even though it is slower than a P4, you are paying very little for a mobo and cpu.

 

[BigBadBiologist]

Well, you were right. I got 2.26GHz out of it. There may be more headroom, but right now the CPU is at 60C under load. Maybe with a better HSF, it could do a better job.

 

[RamIt]

Doubtful. That board "like most abit boards" report temps at least 5 deg higher than other manufacturers. My BD7II Runs at 45 idle and 55 under load with a ported120mm fan on an alpha 8942.