Celeron II 800 seems to look like the best chip to overclock.

[Carmine_Paterno]

After looking at how cheap Processors are, i see that the Celeron II 800 looks the most appatizing. The P3 700 are not out anymore, and even if they were, i wouldn't buiy one because i know 4 people who have bought them, 1 couldn't get past 860, the other 3 933 was max. If i got the 800 to 1100, it would run like a 933 at a fraction of the cost. Seems good to me, what do you guys think?

Or i could get a 800 duron @ 1100...... :)

[UnseenMenace]

It will have to be a special Duron 800 to get to 1100 as most of them stop just above 1 ghz.. the Duron 700 has more chance of getting there I would have thought.
My Duron 800 runs @ 1050

[gdog]

Yep and a duron at 1050, will spank a celly at 1100, and i am an intel chip lover, so thats sayin summat.
Theres a guy on here with a celly 800@1200!!!! now thats just plain crazy.
Now if you bought a duron ud need a new mobo too.

[Philip]

I bought a Celeron II 800 two weeks ago, have no problem running 117 x 8 even at default voltage, tried 127 x 8 last night with no luck but that could just be the problem with my PC100 memory, will try again soon.

[Slake]

I've been checking the CPU database specs on the Cel 800, and Dayummm! this chip looks SWEET! I do believe I will order one to replace the 600 I murdered yesterday.

[Slake]

Just checked pricewatch. The 800 OEM is $66.00 and the retail can be had for $77. Think I'll see if PCNUT has any.
UpdateHe's got them at $107.00 OEM last price update was 6/3/01

[Lancelot]

I'm glad some people are finally realizing this! I bought a Celeron 800 in March when it just came out, and a lot of people just said it's nothing more than a remarked 533a, but I don't see any 533a doing 1Ghz straight out of the box with default voltages! Another thing a lot of people tend to forget is that the Duron has 64kb more full-speed cache and a 200Mhz FSB, so it's a big accomplishment for the 'poor' Celeron 800 to even come close to it! Mine runs a gig default and will do 1066 (8*133) but with 3.8Vio which I don't like at all... I also found out that underclocking the PCI bus gets me an unstable system. So I need to get above 100Mhz or above 133Mhz. I can get to 1120Mhz (8*140) with a lot of upping voltages, but maybe I should try another mobo. I'm also using a cheap generic slocket right now...

[Philip]

Tried again last night by replacing the PC100 memory by PC133 ones. Yes my Celeron II 800 also made it to 1 G ( 127 x 8 ) at default voltages. Too bad I wasn't thinking of overclocking this chip when I bought the motherboard, I just chosen one with no voltage control !!!

[gdog]

ouch thats gotta hurt.
If you had an old slot 1 board, u could get a slocket, with voltage adjusters.

[Philip]

Despite the fact that my Celeron 800 could reach 1G, it is still 10% slower in cpumark when comparing to my 900Mhz T-bird.

[Mr B]

Ok...just for giggles, I tried something.....

Celeron 600 @ 1035, 2.05v, 115 FSB -VS- P/// 600E @ 954, 1.95v, 159 FSB.

3DMark2000.....

Same rig, just swapped out the cpu. Asus P3C2000, 256 MB PC133, 3D Prophet II MX (GeForce2 32 MB).

Ran the benchmark, and got 5200+ with the P///, 3800+ with the Celeron.

I did this the other day, and didn't take screenshots. I will if you want me to.....

Mr B

[Mr B]

Ok, just ran 'em both...

Here's the P///'s SS; 954 MHz.

Mr B

[Mr B]

And the Celley's turn...

I couldn't get 1045 Stable tonight....we're in the midst of a nice thunderstorm, and it's quite warm and humid. My ambiant temp is up a few higher than normal. This test was done at 1026 MHz, and the Celeron did a bit better tonight, than it did the other day....

It's still WELL off the P///....

Mr B

[Carmine_Paterno]

hey Mr. B I was wondering if you could send me that Intel Program....Looks like i could use it. Buying my Celeron II 800 tonight...Sweet.

[Pinky]

Smoking scores Mr. B...

I am surprised to hear the celeron runs that well at such a high FSB...

I'm still a bit weary, but I won't give up on Intel quite yet!! Celeron 1Ghz? Nah, probably not (at least there's no mention on the roadmap).

[Pinky]

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