2.0 Volts too much to push through Celeron ???

[daver343]

ALright, Im sitting at 1007MHz with 1.95v on tis Celeron 633. I havn't tried higher, and it might go higher with the 1.95v but just incase, can I put 2.0V throught the cpu? I don't wann kill it here. Cooling is being done with an alpha pep/66 heatsink with artic silver. thanks.

[Ashyukun]

You should be able to put 2.0v through it fairly safely- but you probably won't want to push it much higher. It also to an extent depends on what stepping of Celeron you have- the cC0s have an inherently higher factory voltage, so you can go a bit higher with them. I think that most people try not to push their cC0s much over 2v, and I believe that the cB0s are a bit lower.

[Phil]

2V is the absolute limit for safety on coppermine cores, even then I would say you should make sure you have good cooling, I think you should stick where you are at 1.95v, going to 2v won't give you much more and isn't worth the possible risk of killing the cpu for what will likely be less than a 5% increase

[Kryten]

Phil (Apr 19, 2001 03:32 p.m.):
2V is the absolute limit for safety on coppermine cores, even then I would say you should make sure you have good cooling, I think you should stick where you are at 1.95v, going to 2v won't give you much more and isn't worth the possible risk of killing the cpu for what will likely be less than a 5% increase

This is typical of the response I got when asking the same question about 2.05v, I think you need to be happy with what you have.

[logos]

daver343 (Apr 19, 2001 11:04 a.m.):
ALright, Im sitting at 1007MHz with 1.95v on tis Celeron 633. I havn't tried higher, and it might go higher with the 1.95v but just incase, can I put 2.0V throught the cpu? I don't wann kill it here. Cooling is being done with an alpha pep/66 heatsink with artic silver. thanks.

i would think it would depend on temps. I have been running mine at 1.8v@985, and when i bump the voltage to the board max of 1.9v the temps don't go up. I loaded rise of abit and am running it at 2.0 volts and it idles only about 26 instead of 24 but full loads upper 30's intstead of low 30's. I tried 2.05v but the load temps hit mid 40's so I knocked it back down to 2.0 and am running benchmarks to see if it will burn in a little more.

blah, blah, sorry- if you have a reliable way of checking temps then just try it...sounds like you have a better chip you might even have better luck

[Pinky]

That's a lot of voltage. Burning in a CPU at 1.80 or 1.85 will produce the same results as a burn in at 2.00v The only difference is that running higher voltages increase the odds of damaging the CPU (especially long term).

Many people appear to be using 2.00v but I've never ventured past 1.90

My philosophy is not to push an inferior chip -- get a better chip and move on to better overclocking results!