Overclocking My Celeron 300

[Esturk17]

Hi Everyone. I have an Abit BE6 mobo with the latest BIOS. In the Soft Menu I can go up to 150mhz bus speed. Right now I am using 450mhz@100mhz bus speed. I havn't been able to go higher. Any suggestions?

[Yodums]

I think you mite have reached the limit..

Thats a good oc for that chip...

[Monaco]

Most 300A Celerons seem to cruise right to 450mhz, but won't go much beyond that without very good cooling. With a heatsink\fan combo, my 300A tops out at 450- but with water cooling, it goes to 517mhz- but only as long as the core is 25C or less. If the core temp goes over 25C, at any speed other than 450 it crashes.

300As like it cold!!:D

[LutaWicasa]

I've had 2 300a's that ran 504 MHz aircooled. Both would post at 525 but wouldn't load windows. With water and pelts prolly could've got my 100% oc :D

[Zuck Gou :)]

I had a great 300A, it went to 521 no problem. Would post at 600 but windows protection error followed. I was only using a Volcano too.

[LutaWicasa]

Oh, and by the by.......welcome to OC.com :D

We'd be able to make a few more constructive suggestions if ya could give us a bit more detail. What are ya using for cooling, what ram etc. ya got, what core voltage ya running................
C'mon, let's crank that lil' Cellie up!!!

[Esturk17]

First thing is that I do not have a 300A, it's just a 300. Using the stock intel heatsink+fan, keeps it pretty cool. Also I have a Voodoo 3 PCI, not overclocked. Some brand of SDRAM, 1x64mb. I would like to at least get 500mhz out of it. :) There are a lot of options for FSB in the BIOS though, up to 150mhz now that I flashed the latest version of the BIOS.

[Esturk17]

Oh yeah my voltage is 2.0v.I havn't really done much yet.

[LutaWicasa]

Okay, different ballgame. No matter how far you manage to oc that chip, it won't help much. That's the cacheless Cellie, without the L2 cache the performance is basically pretty bad. I haven't seen one hit 500 MHz(pretty close, but not quite). You could first check the ram. A good quality pc 100 will be quite sufficient for the oc you'll be able to do. Bump up the core voltage a little and give'er another shot, just keep an eye on your temp.
Actually, thats about all I could suggest. You've got a good old BX board there, but you'll never push that particular Cellie much past where she is now.

[Esturk17]

Yeah the ram is PC100 so maybe...

[Esturk17]

Got 466 and 504mhz! 466 works fine but 504 get's past post and when windows starts loading a half or a third of the screen is cut off and it freezes. Must be the video card. At least I can use 466 without any problems.