Oc'ing a Celeron 366... I have no clue!

[Randall]

So, before i snagged this beast that i have, i had a celeron 366MHz running on some board <I have no clue as to which one right now cuz it's in my roomates room so he can play games, but i do know that it has a really crappy Award bios> that ran fine for me before i spoiled myself with this tbird... my question is this... i have never oc'd an intel chip before... is it done through the bios? or are there jumpers on this chip's circuitboard? i know this is dwindling info, but if you need more, i'd be happy to supply it... thx

[Pinky]

I have some experience with these chipz :)
see my sig. below.

You will need to be specific about you mobo... in order to overclock an intel chip you increase the FSB (as the multiplier is locked), and thus the processor clock increases. These chips have a 5.5x multiplier. I have my FSB set to 100mhz, times the 5.5 multiplier, I get 550Mhz from that crappy little 366. It improves performance dramatically, I can't even use it at a lower speed, but it competes very nicely as is. cooling may be a factor, as the speed increased so does the heat generated. A heat sink alone is not enough. You will need a decent heat sink and fan. Also, as the clock speed increases, the voltage going into the chip needs to increase (in order to maintain the increased demand placed on it). My chips are set to 2.20V (2.00 V is default, 2.10 works for some, but the maximum is 2.30V).

I hope I answered some of your questions.

[Phil]

Pinky covered pretty much all the overclocking bits so I won't repeat. These chips used to be great used in the bp6, many people used to set up dual 550+ systems for less than the price of a single p2 450, stability could be an issue in a dual system but good cooling and slight vvoltage increases would usually fix them, also in a dual system a fan on the northbridge would help a lot.