OC a PC Chip and Celeron 500

[draino]

Hello to all, I am building a PC for a friend with my money so it is cheap but it will work for what the family will use it for. Anyway I am having a problem I have put a PC chip M726MRT board (but that's not the problem..) with a Celeron 500 PPGA, with 128mb of PC 133, A WD 13 gig ATA66 HD, A voodoo 3 3000 AGP in a new AT 250wt case. I know this chip is locked but can't I set the FBS higher on it? I went to PC Chip and according to the BIOS string it is a 2mb BIOS so I updated that. I set the FSB to 75 and it posts and all but in windows start up screen I get half of it and it freezes. I am not all that good in OCing but I would like to get it atleast to 566 for them and just can't. Any help would be much appreceiated. Thanks, Duane

 

[Wega!]

Maybe u should try to post this at the Intel CPU's section?

 

[KaHNZa]

If your building it for someone else you probably shouldn't overclock it anyway. Besides, going from 500 to 566 won't make a difference. Especially if they are not gaming much. And you really don't wanna have to worry about heat for the many many hours that you aren't there do you? seriously though, I would just leave it alone. Keep it stable for them, they depend on you.

 

[bruce]

I know a little about this one, as a former Celery owner (Formerly a Cely 600-R.I.P), I'm so glad that thing fried, but that is another story. Your problem might lie with the core of the proc., the Mendicno (sorry about spelling) core went from about 300 to 533, the coppermine core started as a 533A and went up from there (Check the Intel spec link in the CPU database for conformation), being that your cpu is at the upper range of the Mendicno core you probably won't get much of an overclock if at all. It is of course locked and you can only OC by tweaking the FSB (remedial, but just to be safe). Also, the P3 and Celery cores are the same, just the Celery has less cache. By the way, a PC Chips board and a Celery? why not a Via board and a Duron, I'm building a System for a buddy and I found him a Duron 750/Shuttle Board (VIA 133A chipset) and case kit for $168 at pricewatch, and it'll upgrade to Palimino in the future, the rest of the system looks okay, but you need to get some AMD luvin' I know what I'm talkin about! My Celery ran at 850 stable before I pushed it too far, and my Athlon 850 kicks *** on the numbers that old Cely was benching.