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I recently bought a Celeron 700 + Aopen FCPGA adapter, to upgrade my BH6/300a system. (If you read my earlier posts, u know this already ).
OK, I didn´t reinstall Windows, but I think I can draw a few conslusions anyway. INSTABILITY is the keyword for this new Celeron 700. It boots at 875 Mhz, but most often hangs in games. 788 Mhz works OK, but still unstable. Somewhat unstable even at specified 700 Mhz.
At first I thought this was a memory problem, so I bought a 256 Mb branded DIMM(NCP PC133 cas2). This showed no improvement though over my old generic PC100 128 Mb. It will not boot at1050 Mhz even at max voltage(1,85). This new memory module showed improvement with my cely 300A though - it now boots at 508 Mhz, and is ROCK STABLE in 464 Mhz. This o/c allows PCI to run at 33 Mhz - maybe that has something to do with it?
I can´t tell any difference in speed or performance between these two cpu´s - the only thing is stability and the winner is the 300A. Replacing the hard drives, graphics card and memory made a great improvement though.
Stupid question - Abit FAQ´s tell that BH6 rev. 1.0x doen´t support coppermine CPU´s - but is the Celeron a coppermine?
Conclusion must be - don´t replace your 300A if u have a BH6 rev. 1.0x board. If you gonna buy a new system don´t even THINK Celeron. AMD´s Duron is the way to go. 2½ years ago Intel shocked the market by offering the Celeron 300A - overclockable at least by 50%. They seem to have learned from that "mistake" though. After all, overclocking ain´t worth **** if stability doesn´t come with it.
regards,
Henry.
OK, I didn´t reinstall Windows, but I think I can draw a few conslusions anyway. INSTABILITY is the keyword for this new Celeron 700. It boots at 875 Mhz, but most often hangs in games. 788 Mhz works OK, but still unstable. Somewhat unstable even at specified 700 Mhz.
At first I thought this was a memory problem, so I bought a 256 Mb branded DIMM(NCP PC133 cas2). This showed no improvement though over my old generic PC100 128 Mb. It will not boot at1050 Mhz even at max voltage(1,85). This new memory module showed improvement with my cely 300A though - it now boots at 508 Mhz, and is ROCK STABLE in 464 Mhz. This o/c allows PCI to run at 33 Mhz - maybe that has something to do with it?
I can´t tell any difference in speed or performance between these two cpu´s - the only thing is stability and the winner is the 300A. Replacing the hard drives, graphics card and memory made a great improvement though.
Stupid question - Abit FAQ´s tell that BH6 rev. 1.0x doen´t support coppermine CPU´s - but is the Celeron a coppermine?
Conclusion must be - don´t replace your 300A if u have a BH6 rev. 1.0x board. If you gonna buy a new system don´t even THINK Celeron. AMD´s Duron is the way to go. 2½ years ago Intel shocked the market by offering the Celeron 300A - overclockable at least by 50%. They seem to have learned from that "mistake" though. After all, overclocking ain´t worth **** if stability doesn´t come with it.
regards,
Henry.