whats the limit for the 700mhz celeron

[Bmxpunk86pl]

yea i finally got the celly up to 872mhz (83*10.5) at 1.80volts, but my harddrive didint like that very much so i guess im gonna go for 1050mhz (100*10.5) but i would need to raise the voltage pretty high right? and get better cooling because when i was running at 872mhz the temp was at 50degress Celsius. But will my processor blow when i run it at 1050mhz. the voltage will also have to be raised(whats the max voltage on that baby). oh yea and yea i will get better cooling.

[Mr B]

83 FSB is kind of a no-mans land. At that setting, the PCI bus is WAY out of whack, and usually data corruption to the hard drive is common.

Most of the C700's I've heard about won't hit 100FSB. If yours does, you've either got a really good chip, or you've thrown a ton of vcore at it.

The C700 has such a high multiplier, it's really hard to work with. I'd recommend a different chip to work with, in all honesty.

I'd either step up to the newer 100FSB Celerons (800/850/900) or back down to a lower multiplier 66FSB chip (566/600/633).

The C700 has a reputation for being an "overclocking Dog".

[batboy]

Yep, what Mr. B said. I might add this, your temps are already way too high for what you're running. If you could somehow get your CPU load temps down to 40 or less then you could throw more voltage at it. As for max voltage, well, that's a big matter of debate. I personally don't like going much above 2.0v with those coppermine cores if you're using air cooling. Others claim to run at 2.1v or even 2.2v, but that's really pushing the envelope. The main concern is temps, but excess voltage over a long period of time can mess up a CPU too. The secret would be more cooling. I have all kinds of cooling mods done to my P-III 700 and I still don't dare running much more than 2.0v and that's only for short periods of time. If you go to water cooling and peltiers, then the added expense is not worth it for a Celeron. It's cheaper to just buy a better CPU. The other possibility is to get a better motherboard with 1 MHz FSB increments like my Abit SA6-R with more PCI clock divider choices. I'm afraid you're hitting a brick wall with your current system, sorry.

[Bmxpunk86pl]

ok thanks you guys