On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 20:26:58 GMT, d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman - Ruether) wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:35:39 -0600, Ray Macke
>
>>I was wondering what motherboards are being successfully used with the
>>overclocked Celerons. Also I see that the 300A Celeron is used a lot for
>>this but how about the the Celeron 333, 366 and 400s. Are these being
>>overclocked too? If so how far?
>The Abit BH-6 and Asus P2B work well - the second uses a
>jumper instead of a BIOS setting, but it makes things easier
>with PCI IRQ assignments than the BH-6. So far, three
>Celeron 300A's have been reliable at 2 volts and 450MHz,
>and we have two more to try...;-) Due to internal settings,
>the other faster Celerons do not OC as well, darn...! ;-)
>Thanks, Intel, for these bargain FAST CPU's...!!! ;-)
>The 300A at 450 checks out fully the equal of the 10X
>more expensive P-II 450, making it a steal! If none is
>provided, use thermal compound or pad between the chip
>and the heat sink, and better yet, use an additional case
>exhaust fan and/or an additional internal fan aimed at the
>CPU sink. Use PC-100 RAM, and enjoy one of the biggest
>bargains in computers...
More:
The Abit BX-6, revision 2 is a nice MB for OC'ing the
Celeron 300A (BIOS settings for OC'ing, instead of jumpers,
and control over IRQ assignments, too...). And, alas, the
last two Celeron 300A's tried did not OC well - one was OK
at 450MHz at 2.2 volts (not TOO warm, but it could use extra
fanning), the other took 2.3 volts to run right, and got
too hot... (the first three ran happily at 2.0 volts).