For all owners of Celery 2 600 @ above 1 gig (esp Mr B)

[OLeung]

i was wonderin how long people have been burning in their cpu's before reaching this magic number.

Would love ur input MR B.

[Phil]

I burned mine in for about 3 months at 600mhz with 2v, this let me run at up to 750mhz with only 1.3v and 900mhz only needed 1.55v, 1.01ghz needed 1.9v the seem stable in everything but prime95 falls over with less than 2.2v, I am currently burning in at 600mhz with 2.3v using prime95, seti and sandra

(this is a cCO 600mhz sl4pb week 49 chip with a FOP 32-1, I used to use an 80mm fan on it but put the 60mm back with the 80mm as an intake right in front of it which works better than an 80mm on the FOP)

[Mr B]

Well, set on down a spell, and I reckon I'll tell ya the tale.

I got the C600 thru e-BAY. the guy selling it has a PC repair shop, and builds them as well. the chip was bought for a customer that never came back to pick up the rig. (DOH!!)

As far as I know, it had been installed in this rig only briefly, and tested at default settings.

When I got it, I was running an A-Trend ATA V931-CX0 board (Via Apollo Pro 133 chipset), w/ 192MB ram (128 of PC133, 64 of PC100) I got a Gorb to put on it, and off I went.

I set the vcore on the Soltek SL02A++ I had slocket to 1.9v, and started bumping the FSB. The A-Trend has settings in the BIOS for up to 155 FSB, but from 100 to 124, the settings are sparse. I got H. Oda's "SoftFSB" and found a compatable listing in the motherboards, as the A-Trend wasn't listed.

600 to 900 effortlessly.

103 was next. No sweat. 112 was the next one in the BIOS, and it didn't make that big of a jump. 1.95v? Nope. 2.0v? Post, no Windows. 2.05? Yes.

So, now I have my Gig. Happy happy, joy joy. Ran it there about a month or so. Ran Prime95 Torture test on and off, Sandra Burn-in too.

Then I learned the shortcoming of the Via chipset concerning memory bandwidth. Started looking for a BX board to run the 600 on.

Right about this time, a whole mess of things happened in very short order. Someone hit my '81 Cutlass, bonking in the pass. door. The door still works, window too, but I got $150 for my troubles. (I got the car for $0..ie, free, so I didn't argue ) I also won an auction at e-BAY for a Soyo 6BA+III board that had bad PS/2 ports, but worked fine w/ a USB keyboard and serial mouse. Well worth $10. Further, I was offered an upgrade from the Gorb (by another member of this forum) and got an Alpha PEP66T hsf.

The $$ from the car got another stick of 128 MB PC133, and the mb, and hsf.

Between the Alpha, and the Soyo, (I changed them both within a couple of days) I managed to get not only cooler temps, but another 5 MHz of FSB in the bargain. This put me at 117 FSB / 1053 MHz. I ran this there for a while more until after enough persuasion from members in here, I backed the vcore down to 1.95v. I would get 1020 MHz (113.5 FSB), but it was shakey in 3D games, and would lock after a hour or two of Prime95.

Back to 112.

At this point, I got yet another mb, an Asus P3C200. I ran the Celeron on this at 113/1.95v until I could get an Alpha for the slot1 P/// 600E I had gotten in the interium, also listed below.

Since I got the P///-Alpha setup going (the Asus is designed for the P///. There is no setting for 66 FSB, hence it isn't made for a Celeron) the C600/1053(1017) has been on ice, biding time until I can get another case, cd-rom, and floppy drive. Then I'll set up the Soyo/Celeron again.

The Celeron works great, but this P/// at 954 blows it away. The increase in memory bandwidth from the higher FSB, plus the better L2 cache more than makes up for the 99MHz of speed difference.

Thats the story, and I'm stickin' to it.

Mr B

[Sempei]

I just joined the Gig club this weekend. I have a Celeron II 600 on a BH6 motherboard with 128mb Crucial PC133 memory. Also Alpha PEP66 w/ Arctic Silver thermal paste for the cooling. I burned in for 2 weeks at 600 with 2.0 volts. Was using an Abit slocket and pumping the voltage up to 1.95v made everything stable except Prime95. This of course was not acceptable to me. On a last effort I swapped the Abit slocket for the MSI 6905 master slocket. BANG! Everything stable including Prime95 and I even dropped the voltage to 1.9v

[Rainmaker]

Just got around to replacing a c366@550 with a C600. The thing went to 1 GHZ straight out of the box with the retail fan.

[The Doors]

Hi,
I've tried my C2 600 cb0 (rock stable @900 1.85v) @112Mhz Fsb, but hangs during Win boot, probably need more voltage, I can reach max 1.9 :-( or cooling, I hope Delta 38 help.

[Carmine_Paterno]

Well, Mine does 950 @ 1.85v-----------983 @ 2.0v---------1ghz @ 2.0v no 3d.

Not to bad, burned in for 5 hours!

[logos]

i got mine over a gig after 3 weeks of see-sawing- but it's running slower and slower now!