Which OC's better PIII 733 or 750? Using in a dual setup.

[waddell]

I'm planning to use the ASUS CUV4X-D dual cpu board for high end CAD work. Maybe some minor OC'ing but nothing drastic.
Or should I use 700e's and crank on em?

 

[Grendel99]

The 750 should overclock better, becuase it is on the 100mhz FSB. As the 733 is already at 133. Actually a 700 would overclock better.

I have one at 966 right now

 

[lifeguard1999]

A 750E theoretically has a lot further it can o/c since it is using a 100 MHz FSB. That is, it can go from 100 MHz FSB up to 133 MHz for a nice 33% o/c and the AGP/PCI bus is still in spec. A 733EB does not have as far to go. You will be very fortunate indeed if you can go from 133 MHz to 166 MHz FSB because then the PCI is running way out of spec.

A 700E o/c at 133 FSB will end up being 933 MHz.
A 750E o/c at 133 FSB will end up being 1 GHz.

The 700s tend to o/c better than the 750s. Still, head on over to the For Sale forum and you will see pretested 750s at 1 GHz.

 

[MTDEW]

Uh, yeah.