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| 22889 | 2001-10-29 01:34:00 | Hey, Any help would be apreciated. I have a celeron chip and want to try 'overclocking' it but the Bios wont let me. Is this where you do it. Do the benifits out weigh the risks. The chip is a PII 400mhz and Im running some more intensive applications which chew through the processor power quickly. I have increased the ram which helped but Im to budget to buy a new motherboard and chip. Cheers Campbell. |
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| 22890 | 2001-10-29 01:59:00 | Most motherboards need you to use the jumpers on the board to set the speed of the chip. You will need the manual for your motherboard to know what to set. Moving a celeron from a 66MHz FSB to 100MHz seems to boost performance quite well. Have a look around www.arstechnica.com, www.tomshardware.com and www.anandtech.com. Personally I don't think it will be worth it, you may get it to 450-466, but the only place you will notice it is in the benchmarks. The effect won't be anything like when you increased your ram. And you will have to buy better cooling for your system, and will shorten the life of your chip. I've got a PII-400 with 256MB ram and its fine for everything except games (which more is the graphics card fault). Just grab a cup of coffee while its compiling/rendering etc :-). |
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| 22891 | 2001-10-29 02:55:00 | er..when is a p2 400 a celeron?? work out what chip and motherboard you have first. a p2 is harder to overclock than a celeron. it also depends on what chipset the motherboard has and speed of ram(depending on how high you overclock) |
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| 22892 | 2001-10-29 03:38:00 | Oppps! Yeah its a celeron. Im still learning all this hardware stuff. And thanks for the help. I spose Its not really worth it. I will just have to wait till my work provides me with enough money to upgrade. Point in case though XP pro did improve performance considerable, as well as the stability. |
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| 22893 | 2001-10-29 07:36:00 | I also have a Celeron 400 I have set the jumpers on my Chaintech motherboard from 66 to 100 and has made a slight difference. I also had a tweak in the Bios. I am only running 64 ram but am increasing it to 256 (the price is good around $70.00 to $80.00 |
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| 22894 | 2001-11-02 21:41:00 | Its possible you have a jumperless board like mine. I'm currently running a celeron 300A at 450, without any trouble. The board is an ABIT BH6, and to up the processor speed (if it is infact a jumperless board) you will need to do this in the bios. There are two settings which determine CPU speed, one is BUS speed (66 or 100) and the other is the multiplier. I would suggest a BUS speed of 100, and changing the multiplier gives the CPU speed (e.g. BUS 100, Multiplier 4.5; so speed is 100*4.5=450MHz in my case) becareful not to overdo it though, See if you can find a site with success and failure stories for your chip. Try some of the sites in last months PCWorld mag! If however, you do change your BUS speed from 66 to 100, you should check your RAM is the correct BUS as well, it may be fixed at 66. | Guest (0) | ||
| 22895 | 2001-11-12 20:46:00 | I know that when my computer got a power spike from a lightning hit, the motherboard and modem popped. The board got replaced with a pc133 version, but as you metioned I will check out the sites to see what is the case with my board. Cheers Campbell Anderson |
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