Cheapest route to 1.5 GHz with ABit BH6?

[Celery000]

I'm looking to run my PC at 1.5 GHz (approx) via the cheapest route
possible.

Motherboard is the earlier ABit BH6 - it currently has in it a Celeron
600 overclocked to 900 MHz.

Will this early BH6 take a CPU overclocked to 1.5 GHz?

If so, which CPU should I go for? Intel? AMD?



Thanks,
Phil

[batboy]

Nope, there is no Intel chip that will work with that BH6 that overclock that high. The only CPU that will guarantee to reach 1.5 gig is the P-4 and no way will it work with that board, sorry.

[The Doors]

You can go with a Celeron2 800 (many guys are reching good results), or the new 850 (???) OCed around 1100-1200Mhz.
This way increase also the bandwidth coz you up the Fsb from 100 to 133, when a C2 600@900 use normally a Fsb@66 upped to 100.

I hope it's help you :-)

[Pinky]

batboy (Jun 22, 2001 06:47 a.m.):
Nope, there is no Intel chip that will work with that BH6 that overclock that high. The only CPU that will guarantee to reach 1.5 gig is the P-4 and no way will it work with that board, sorry.

Yep, the highest even the Tulatin's are able to go, overclocked, is 1.43 GHZ with the best cooling mods possible (read the bench tests a month ago on a Japanese research page, so it is true).

[batboy]

Remember, we're talking about the BH6 mobo, which if I remember right, only has a max FSB of 133 MHz. Of the available Intel CPUs that overclock the best, considering the clock multipliers of these CPUs, you'll be hard pressed to find anything that will run much above 1 gig stable, maybe up to 1.1 gig at the very most under ideal conditions, assuming you have excellent cooling, excellent components, and an exceptional CPU. Let's be realistic here.