733mhz Celeron... Gotta make it do better!

[Rotary Junkie]

Well, here it is. I've got a 733mhz Celeron, and it's presently overclocked to 913mhz. I KNOW it can go higher. But I'm at my BIOS's limits... And I haven't found a tweaking program that works for me.

Any suggestions? If it helps, I've got 512mb ram and an nVidia GeForce FX5200 (128mb).

 

[G.T]

To be perfectly honest, you'd be better off getting a new processor!

I don't know of any more ways to OC it even further, but I wouldn't suggest going further anyway...

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Yeah, it seems like it's overclocked pretty far for what it is.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Yeah, but it's so stable that I KNOW I can get better. I don't want to spend money, I want this thing as good as it can be. I have an Athlon tower sitting around waiting on RAM.

 

[V1P3R]

I'd rather slit my wrists than own a celeron period...

 

[Wolfe]

Unless you're dead broke, you could probably afford to upgrade. For example, the computer place I shop at sells a 1.8GHz AMD barebones kit (motherboard, CPU, and case) for $140.

Depending on which parts you can keep (monitor, keyboard, mouse, videocard, soundcard, hard drive, etc.) and which parts you have to upgrade (RAM, probably), you could end up with a computer that's twice as fast for less than $200.

 

[V1P3R]

This might be a better place to go.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

I am DEAD broke.

 

[V1P3R]

I'd try to tuff it out with it the way it is until you are not broke if that's not for too long. When you can get a "real" pc.

 

[Omnis]

Got 25 bucks?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Core-2-Du...163241085QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160163241085

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Core-2-Du...165741747QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180165741747

What kind of socket is a celeron, anyway?

 

[opendriver]

What kind of socket is a celeron, anyway?

All info here:

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron 733 - RB80526RX733128 (BX80526F733128).html

Its an ancient 370 socket. I would say you've hit the max for your motherboard and CPU. I think its time for an upgrade.

I understand you don't have any money, so maybe look for free PC's from some of your friends or maybe craigslist.

 

[Azuremen]

He doesn't really need to upgrade though. Like he said, he has an athlon tower, which should work if it is just mild use.

That aside, you have about a 25% increase in clock speed, which is quite a bit. Honestly, you likely can not push it further, unless their are jumpers on the motherboard to manually configure clock settings, but that would be truly ancient.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Yeah, but the Athlon's 120 bucks retail away from being able to work well. And I don't look forward to swapping my power supply in (Stock HP unit's GOTTA be trash compared to my 400W).

Dang, I just wish there was a way...

 

[Snod Blatter]

Heh, it's never enough until you've gone too far... I'd recommend having a look at clockgen/softfsb/cpufsb or some other software overclocking tool that supports your PLL.

If the program doesn't have your board listed, you can manually tell it which PLL you have by looking for it yourself, like this.

Just hope your PLL isn't maxed out, if it is then it's a lot more difficult to get some more speed (far from impossible though).

 

[Danoff]

Well, here it is. I've got a 733mhz Celeron, and it's presently overclocked to 913mhz. I KNOW it can go higher. But I'm at my BIOS's limits... And I haven't found a tweaking program that works for me.

Any suggestions? If it helps, I've got 512mb ram and an nVidia GeForce FX5200 (128mb).

I'd concentrate on reducing overhead. Scale windows back, turn off background apps, make sure that your swap file is optimized. If you eek another 80 mhz our of that thing it won't benefit you as much in terms of real speed as reigning in windows.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Well, Windows is scaled WAAY back. Like, I can shut windows off. (Blank screen with a cursor as desktop, explorer.exe not running) But it still has a few background processes.

Tried clockgen and such, no dice.

 

[Snod Blatter]

Well, Windows is scaled WAAY back. Like, I can shut windows off. (Blank screen with a cursor as desktop, explorer.exe not running) But it still has a few background processes.

Tried clockgen and such, no dice.

I see, what motherboard are you using? Are you sure nothing can communicate with your PLL properly?

After this, getting more speed requires soldering...

 

[Rotary Junkie]

BIOS Type: Award
BIOS Date: March 19th 2001
BIOS ID: 03/19/2001-601-686B-6A6LID49C-00
BIOS OEM: 6.00 PG
Chipset: VIA 82C601 rev 5
SuperIO: VIA 686 rev 64 at pci 7
Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
Motherboard: VT8601
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2.0
Maximum Memory: 512MB
Installed Memory: 512MB
Memory Config: Slot1:256 Slot2:256 Slot3:0 Slot4:0

Just found this. Used Award's site.