Which Celeron to get?

[Syborg1211]

A friend of mine wants to buy a new cpu for really cheap and can't abandon his good ol Abit Be6-2 Rev2 (i440b chipset). So, naturally I am suggesting the Celeron route. Which celeron should he get though? He will most likely overclock so the best yielding chip would be the best choice. The motherboard cant support any celeron over 1ghz and I figure he would have to get a 100 mhz bus cpu because the multipliers on the 66mhz bus ones are waay too high to get to 100 mhz bus. The budget is 60 bucks... so which one?

 

[oldfart]

If he has a video card that will take an 89 MHz AGP speed, and PC133 ram, he could try to overclock to 133 MHz FSB. A C800 @ 1064, a C900 @ 1200 are a couple of options. CD0 steppings are the ones you want. Even if you ran a C900 @ 112 FSB, 1008 MHz, it's a pretty decent running setup. Googlegear has pretty decent CPU prices.

 

[boyRacer]

i have a 1ghz celeron that could do 1.2ghz @ 120fsb on a p2b-f...it boots at 1.33 133FSB but does some funny things in XP... i didn't raise the voltage as i'm using a GORB on it... but i'm sure it wouldn't have a problem @ 1.33. You could find it for $70 sometimes even less.

 

[thomsbrain]

<< If he has a video card that will take an 89 MHz AGP speed, and PC133 ram, he could try to overclock to 133 MHz FSB. A C800 @ 1064, a C900 @ 1200 are a couple of options. CD0 steppings are the ones you want. Even if you ran a C900 @ 112 FSB, 1008 MHz, it's a pretty decent running setup. Googlegear has pretty decent CPU prices. >>



want to explain to me how a Coppermine is going to run at 1200 MHz?

 

[thomsbrain]

BTW, my C566 has run at 952 for over a year now, very stable. You could probably find one very very cheap.

 

[oldfart]

My Coppermine PIII 1 GHz will run perfectly fine @ 1.2 GHz. This is @ default Vcore, stock HS/Fan. I need 160 MHz FSB to do this. My nic wont work @ 40 MHz PCI, so I just leave it @ 150 FSB, 1.125 GHz.

 

[Syborg1211]

I can't seem to find out this information, but does the Celeron lose its 66mhz bus once it gets past 800mhz? Newegg has a 1ghz celeron that supposedly runs on a 66mhz bus, but that's a 15x multiplier than. Perhaps a typo or do multipliers get that high on a 440bx?

 

[oldfart]

<< does the Celeron lose its 66mhz bus once it gets past 800mhz? >>


Yes


<< Newegg has a 1ghz celeron that supposedly runs on a 66mhz bus, but that's a 15x multiplier than. Perhaps a typo or do multipliers get that high on a 440bx? >>


That is a mistake. It runs 10 x 100 = 1000

 

[novice]

"I can't seem to find out this information, but does the Celeron lose its 66mhz bus once it gets past 800mhz?"
Yes it does, all Celerons over 766 run at 100 Mhz fsb by default. For overclocking the 800 is great if you have the ability to run 133 MHz fsb or higher. I have a 900 which is a decent compromise and am currently running 120 fsb on my MSI-6309. It underclocks my PCI and AGP busses a little, but seems more stable at a little lower vcore voltage than the 124 did. Newegg.com offers the retail boxed version for $45 +6.95 shipping 2nd day fedex. A real steal I was unable to resist.😉
Chuck

 

[blackhawk]

As suggested above, get the 800/100 or 900/100 celeron and try the overclock to 133fsb if your vid card can do it or if your budget allows, try an 1100 or maybe the 1000 and overclock just a little!

 

[apoppin]

<< A friend of mine wants to buy a new cpu for really cheap and can't abandon his good ol Abit Be6-2 Rev2 >>


What is REALLY cheap.

For me it was spending $169 for the new Tualatin Celeron 1.2 Ghz with the PowerLeap Adapter included (for my Abit BX6 (R.2).

If he wants to spend less, a 1.0Ghz Celeron is overclockable especially with the 1/4 PCI divider at 124 FSB . . . then only the AGP is O/C'd and most new video cards handle that.

 

[Vrangel]

Few days ago a friend of mine bought retail c900 for $45 +7shipping at newegg.com .
Went to 126fsb so far, thats 1124MHz or so. Pretty good bang for 52 bucks total.